midnight
She was still hesitating when Saturday night came round again -- swiftly despite long disheartening days , and wakeful awful nights . In the morning her rent would be due . She had a dollar and forty-five cents . After dinner alone a pretense at dinner -- she wandered the streets of the old Tenderloin until midnight . An icy rain was falling . Rains such as this -- any rains except showers -- were rare in the City of the Sun . That rain by itself was enough to make her downhearted .