midnight
The moon came up and they found themselves unable to talk . In his sadness the young man forgot the resolutions he had made regarding his conduct with the girl . They got out of the buggy at a place where a long meadow ran down to the bank of Wine Creek and there in the dim light became lovers . When at midnight they returned to town they were both glad . It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened . `` Now we will have to stick to each other , whatever happens we will have to do that , '' Ned Currie said as he left the girl at her father 's door . The young newspaper man did not succeed in getting a place on a Cleveland paper and went west to Chicago .