midnight
He has not the sight that cures . Now is he , the strong young man , laid helpless at anybody 's mercy . ' She supped at her father 's table , and amused the margravine and him alternately with cards and a sonata . Before twelve at midnight she was driving on the road to the University , saying farewell to what her mind reverenced , so that her lover might but have sight of her . She imagined I had been assassinated . For a long time , and most pertinaciously , this idea dwelt with her . I could not dispossess her of it , even after uttering the word ` duel ' I know not how often .