midnight
Death had come too near . His sister and Aldous and the young doctor who had brought him from London watched with him . The curtains were drawn back from both the windows , and in the clearness of the first autumnal frost a crescent moon hung above the woods , the silvery lawns , the plain . Not long after midnight Hallin seemed to himself to wake , full of purpose and of strength . He spoke , as he thought , to Aldous , asking to be alone with him . But Aldous did not move ; that sad watching gaze of his showed no change . Then Hallin suffered a sudden sharp spasm of anguish and of struggle .