midnight
Whether she would have insisted on Jigger going to Glencader if it had not meant that Ian would go also , it would be hard to say . Her motives were not unmixed , though there had been a real impulse to do all she could . In any case , she had lessened the distance between Ian and herself , and that gave her wilful mind a rather painful pleasure . Also , the responsibility for Jigger 's well-being , together with her duties as hostess , had prevented her from dwelling on that scene in the silent house at midnight which had shocked her so -- her husband reeling up the staircase , singing a ribald song . The fullest significance of this incident had not yet come home to her . She had fought against dwelling on it , and she was glad that every moment since they had come to Glencader had been full ; that Rudyard had been much away with the shooters , and occupied in trying to settle a struggle between the miners and the proprietors of the mine itself , of whom he was one . Still , things that Rudyard had said before he left the house to dine with Wallstein , leaving her with Stafford , persistently recurred to her mind .