midnight
This night was to be the last on earth to one of them , perhaps to both . So they said but little . They could but sit in silence , and think , and feel , and suffer . At midnight there was a wild clamor outside . The band had returned . The prisoners went to the window , and there , standing side by side , they looked out . Brooke thought that his hour might even now be at hand , and the same fear occurred to Talbot .