midnight
Count Saxe , from motives of prudence , gave himself out as Count Moritz . The weather was sunny , although the September air was sharp , but that only made our blood leap the faster . The roads were good , and the country far from tedious . Our road led us for a time toward the Baltic Sea , whose loud booming we could sometimes hear in the midnight silences . We were seven days upon the road to Königsberg . They were not the unhappiest days of my life , for I was enabled to do something for Francezka . She turned to me for help in many of those small needs of a woman .