midnight
And my Chief has already had the satisfaction of seeing the secret he confided to me yesterday roared in all the thoroughfares this morning . They 've got the facts : his decision to propose it , and the date -- the whole of it ! But who could have betrayed it ? ' For the first time since her midnight expedition she felt a sensation of the full weight of the deed . She heard thunder . She tried to disperse the growing burden by an inward summons to contempt of the journalistic profession , but nothing would come . She tried to minimize it , and her brain succumbed .