midnight
Generally in love affairs happiness is found in the approach to the marriage contract ; the disillusions come afterward . It was therefore logical that Kitty and her lover should be happy , as they had run the gamut of test and fire beforehand . The young people were to leave for the West soon after the supper for three . At midnight Cutty 's ship would be boring down the bay . Did Kitty regret , even a little , the rice and old shoes , the bridesmaids and cake , so dear to the female of the species ? She did not . Did she think occasionally of the splendour of the title that was hers ?