midnight
Perhaps I can not better illustrate how subordinate the merely physical element is in the impression which mind-readers form of their friends than by mentioning an incident that occurred some months after our union . This was my discovery , wholly by accident , that my love , in whose society I had almost constantly been , had not the least idea what was the color of my eyes , or whether my hair and complexion were light or dark . Of course , as soon as I asked her the question , she read the answer in my mind , but she admitted that she had previously had no distinct impression on those points . On the other hand , if in the blackest midnight I should come to her , she would not need to ask who the comer was . It is by the mind , not the eye , that these people know one another . It is really only in their relations to soulless and inanimate things that they need eyes at all . It must not be supposed that their disregard of one another 's bodily aspect grows out of any ascetic sentiment .