midnight
Hope in this world she had none . Before the black adventure , why not try the world of blissful unreality to which it gave entrance ? Why leave life until she had exhausted all it put within her reach ? She went to Gussie 's room at midnight and flung herself down in a wrapper upon a couch opposite a sallow , delicate young man . His great dark eyes were gazing unseeingly at her , were perhaps using her as an outline sketch from which his imagination could picture a beauty of loveliness beyond human . Gussie taught her how to prepare the little ball of opium , how to put it on the pipe and draw in its fumes . Her system was so well prepared for it by the poisons she had drunk that she had satisfactory results from the outset .