midnight
`` Do n't you think a drive in the open air would do you good ? '' But Irene failed to hear what he was saying , or was treating it as of little consequence . `` Listen , '' she persisted . `` It was between midnight and dawn . I had been brooding morbidly , and sank deep , deep into sleep , so deep that the darkness seemed to close in and crush my spirit right out of my body . Then I was floating about , free to go where I liked . I felt awfully lonely and desolate .