Midnight
`` If not , I pronounce you man and wife . '' Silently still , the others placed their garlands and wreaths at the feet of the wedded pair . Turning , they walked slowly back over the trail . Midnight on Angel Island . Julia sat alone on the stone bench at the door of the Honeymoon House . She gazed straight ahead out on a star-lighted sea , which joined a star-lighted sky and stretched in pulsating star-gleams to the end of space . She gazed straight out , but apparently she saw nothing .