midnight
That the blue-coated man at the street-crossing might help her , never occurred to Genevieve . Genevieve knew policemen only as vaguely dreadful creatures connected with jails and arrests . In time it came to be quite dark . Genevieve wondered what would become of her -- by midnight . People did not starve or die , she supposed , in Boston streets -- not when the streets were as bright as these . But she _ must _ get to Sunbridge . _ Sunbridge !