midnight
It helped mainly to discolour the young world to her eyes . She was under the spell of an excitement too keen and quick to be subdued , by the sombre terrors of a tragedy enacted in a house that she had known . Brookfield was in the talk of all who came to Richford . Emilia got the vision of the wretched family seated in the library as usual , when upon midnight they were about to part , and a knock came at the outer door , and two men entered the hall , bearing a lifeless body with a red spot above the heart . She saw Cornelia fall to it . She saw the pale-faced family that had given her shelter , and moaned for lack of a way of helping them and comforting them . She reproached herself for feeling her own full physical life so warmly , while others whom she had loved were weeping .