midnight
It seemed as if the turning northward were the turning point of every thing . Her heart was very heavy : almost her purpose failed her . `` It is too late to go back now , '' she said , and hurried on . The station-master at Fairfield , if he had been asked whether a woman took the midnight train north at Fairfield that night , would have unhesitatingly said , `` No . '' An instinctive wisdom seemed to direct Hetty 's every step . She waited at some little distance from the station till the train came up : then , without going upon the station platform at all , she entered the rear car from the opposite side of the road . No one saw her ; not even a brakeman .