midnight
When her feet touched the fur of the tiger-skin by the hearth she flung herself down on it . She had no thought in her brain nor any sense of circumstance . It was as if every nerve and pulse in her body were gathered to the one nerve and the one pulse of her heart . At midnight she dragged herself to her bed , and lay there , stretched out , still and passive to the torture . Every now and then tears cut their way under her eyelids with a pricking pain . Every now and then the burn in her arm bit deeper ; but her mind remained dull to this bodily distress . The trouble of her body , that had so possessed her when Owen laid his hands on her , had passed .