midnight
And it 's making you narrow , too , or will if you do n't watch out . I have to kill time somehow till we can be married and so you ought not to find fault with my doing it . Run along over and talk to Imo in her cabin now , Lee ; that 's a good boy . I did n't get back home from town last night until after midnight , and I 'm sleepy . '' He did not go to Imo 's cabin , but to camp instead . For the bitterness of his disappointment at his failure to move her made him desire the darkness and solitude of the ride home . With her , it seemed , he was in a worse predicament than he had been when faced with the problem of his ditch ; for that he had found an answer , found something to take hold of .