midnight
The earthy hunger , that is , a disease much more dangerous and mind-attacking than the learned doctors could even dare to predict . Yet the Garden was ignorantly sleeping every night and the women 's wombs , like the earth , grew heavy with fruits , gestating full-season . Beneath the branches rich with green unearthy smell , in their yet earthy beds of grass from where the snakes of sin were lurking , the young boys of the Eden 's mothers were growing to become Abel and Cain , or only Abel , or only Cain . A matter to be decided upon at midnight , by Eve , the wanderer and the mistress of heart-dictated directions . Eve was a beautiful young woman by then . An all-loving mother of all the wombs and all their fruits . One time I saw her in the distance , wandering in the Park .