midnight
How would she ever get the days over ? Her mother singing in the curing-shed made her angry . The ticking of the big clock accentuated her nervous irritability , and when John returned silent and with that air about him which indicated the master of the house , Denas felt surely that all was over for the present between her and Roland Tresham . The night became blustery after John and the men had gone to the fishing , and by midnight there was a storm . Joan 's white , anxious face was peering through the windows or out of the open door into the black night continually . And the presence of Denas did not comfort her , as it usually did ; the mother felt that her child 's thoughts were with strangers , and not with her father out on the stormy sea . It was ten o'clock next morning before John got home .