midnight
It was snowing fast then , and she kept him all night . That 's what she meant to do , at least . She gave him his supper and had him put to bed on her top floor . She knows he was there till midnight , for she went up to see if he was all right . Then she went to bed herself , and this morning he was gone . The front door was unfastened , and he must have gone out that way . At one moment she blames herself for neglect of him , and the next for having been kind to him . ''