midnight
They wound their arms round each other , and Walter said , `` It is even so , my darling brother . Death is near , but God is with us ; and if it is death , then death means rest and heaven . Good-bye , Charlie , good-bye ; we will be close together till the end . '' The sands and yeasty surges mix At midnight in a dreary bay ; -- And on thy ribs the limpet sticks , And o'er thy bones the scrawl shall play . Tennyson . Anxiety reigned at Saint Winifred 's , succeeded by consternation and intense grief . Little was thought of the absence of the three boys at tea-time , but when it came to chapel-time and bed-time , and they had not yet appeared , and when next morning it was found that they had not been heard of during the night , everyone became seriously alarmed , and all the neighbouring country was searched for intelligence .