About midnight
As far as I 'm concerned , my only regret _ now _ is that I sha n't be in time to dance at the wedding . '' `` Ma'am ? '' he said , and there was something husky in his voice . About midnight they saw a light , and , forsaking what they believed in hopeful moments to be the road , they made for it across country . Across open spaces of sand , into gullies and out of gullies , through stinging patches of yucca and prickly pear , through breast-high chaparral , meshed , knotted , and matted , like a clumsy weaving together of very tough ropes , some with thorns , and all with sharp points and elbows . They had long since dispensed with all conversation except what bore on their situation . Earlier in the night the darkness and the stars had wormed a story of divorce out of Mrs. Kimbal , and Saterlee had found himself longing to have the man at hand and by the throat .