midnight
The night was so still and warm that it was happiness to be naked , and he thought he could sit for hours on that rock without feeling cold , watching the red moon rolling up through the trees round Tinnick ; and when the moon turned from red to gold he wondered how it was that the mere brightening of the moon could put such joy into a man 's heart . Derrinrush was the nearest shore , and far away in the wood he heard a fox bark . ` On the trail of some rabbit , ' he thought , and again he admired the great gold moon rising heavily through the dusky sky , and the lake formless and spectral beneath it . Catherine no doubt had begun to feel agitated ; she would be walking about at midnight , too scared to go to sleep . He was sorry for her ; perhaps she would be the only one who would prefer to hear he was in America and doing well than at the bottom of the lake . Eliza would regret in a way , as much as her administration of the convent would allow her ; Mary would pray for him -- so would Eliza , for the matter of that ; and their prayers would come easily , thinking him dead . Poor women !