midnight
This stroke would run a wide fluting of deficit right through the middle of it . The pall of silence lasted no longer than it has here taken to describe how it fell and enveloped them . Mr. Geltfin broke the silence without lifting the prevalent gloom . Indeed his words but depressingly served to darken it to a very hue of midnight . `` Besides , '' he added , `` there is anyhow another reason . We know what a nice clean girl she was in private life . We know that all them wild romance stories about her was cooked up in the press department to make the suckers believe that both on and off the screen she was the same .