midnight
Then his slow , enduring stubbornness came to his help again as he remembered that there yet remained to him the fight with Hallam . `` I was a fool . She only wanted to be kind , '' he said . Still , he groaned in a fit of passion as the memory of one moment at midnight in Somasco ranch returned to him , for all his pulses throbbed feverishly as he felt in fancy the warm white arm steal round his neck . `` I must have dreamt it -- with the rest , '' he said . `` And if I did n't , that was enough to remember . God bless her for her gentleness . ''