Midnight
He built a fire and lay beside it smoking . He drove away the recollection of the disturbing loveliness he had seen by counting over his injuries at her hands , nourishing them and magnifying them in his mind until they filled it to the exclusion of everything else . It became as dark as it would get . Midnight at that season is no more than an intensified twilight . By and by the moon arose far across the water , looking like an old-fashioned gas-globe , and set sail on her brief voyage low down in the sky from south-east to south-west . Sam received the friend of lovers with a scowl . He had omitted her from his calculations .