midnight
I wanted to go to you again , because , somehow , I felt that midnight meeting in the hospital was a mistake ; that it ended as you would not really wish it to end . '' Again , with wonderful intuition for a man who knew so little of women , as he thought , he had said the one thing which could have cooled the anger that drowned the overwhelming gratitude she felt at his being alive -- overwhelming , in spite of the fact that her old mad temperament had flooded it for the moment . He would have gone to her -- that was what he had said . In spite of her conduct that midnight , when he was on his way to Hetmeyer 's Kopje , he would have come again to her ! How , indeed , he must have loved her ; or how magnanimous , how impossibly magnanimous , he was ! How thin and worn he was , and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering ! There were liberal streaks of grey also at his temples , and she noted there was one strand all white just in the centre of his thick hair .