midnight
`` If you are as constant to me , sweet Virginia , as I shall be to you , nothing can separate us . '' Oh , joyous words ! Were they not the very same with which I had fortified my courage scarcely a month ago ? We parted just after midnight . My aunt was sitting up for me , and I burst into the room in great excitement . `` Oh , Aunt Helen , I am engaged , I am engaged ! I am so happy ! ''