midnight
Thou had better do likewise . Many things are to consider . '' And Ian went away without a word . There was anger in his heart , and as he sat gloomily in his dimly lit room and felt the damp chill of the midnight , he told himself that he had been hardly judged . `` I have done nothing wrong , '' he whispered passionately . `` Old McLeod collected his own rents and looked after his own property and no one thought he did wrong . He was an elder in one of the largest Edinburgh kirks and the favourite chairman in missionary meetings , but because I did not go to kirk , what was business in him was sin in me .