midnight
So out of briar-roses she fashioned a cross and a wreath , and we laid them reverently on the muddy heap that marked the Bank clerk 's grave . Oh , the pitiful mockery of it ! Soon I knew that Berna and I must part , and but two nights later it came . It was near midnight , yet in no ways dark , and everywhere the camp was astir . We were sitting by the river , I remember , a little way from the boats . Where the sun had set , the sky was a luminous veil of ravishing green , and in the elusive light her face seemed wanly sweet and dreamlike . A sad spirit rustled amid the shivering willows and a great sadness had come over the girl .