midnight
There being then no chance of a summons , they went out together . Passing the house , they saw light in one upper window only . That light would burn there all night , for it was in Euphra 's room . They went on , Hugh accompanying Falconer in one of his midnight walks through London , as he had done repeatedly before . From such companionship and the scenes to which Falconer introduced him , he had gathered this fruit , that he began to believe in God for the sake of the wretched men and women he saw in the world . At first it was his own pain at the sight of such misery that drove him , for consolation , to hope in God ; so , at first , it was for his own sake . But as he saw more of them , and grew to love them more , he felt that the only hope for them lay in the love of God ; and he hoped in God for them .