midnight
Her family worshipped her -- as she deserved . That evening Roscoe confided to me that he had not asked Ruth Devlin to be his wife , nor had he , indeed , given her definite tokens of his love . But the thing was in his mind as a happy possibility of the future . We talked till midnight , sitting at the end of the verandah overlooking the ravine . This corner , called the coping , became consecrated to our many conversations . We painted and sketched there in the morning -LRB- when we were not fishing or he was not at his duties -RRB- , received visitors , and smoked in the evening , inhaling the balsam from the pines . An old man and his wife kept the house for us , and gave us to eat of simple but comfortable fare .