midnight
What would she be wanting of me ? I ai n't fitten for her . I ai n't fitten for her , '' he said aloud , unconsciously falling into the dialect of his father . Hugh walked the entire afternoon away and in the evening went back to his shop and worked until midnight . So energetically did he work that several knotty problems in the construction of the hay-loading apparatus were cleared away . On the second evening after the encounter with Clara , Hugh went for a walk in the streets of Bidwell . He thought of the work on which he had been engaged all day and then of the woman he had made up his mind he could under no circumstances win .