midnight
This announcement was stupefying enough to over-shadow all other news of the day , and satisfied the most jaded palate for sensationalism . The first question asked on all sides was : Why had not the wife come forward before ? The reason , as glibly explained by an evening journal of somewhat yellow proclivities , was logical enough . The telling of her midnight visit to a single man 's rooms involved a shameful admission which any woman might well hesitate to make unless forced to it as a last extremity . Confronted , however , with the alternative of either seeing her husband suffer for a crime of which he was innocent or making public acknowledgment of her own frailty , she had chosen the latter course . Naturally , it meant divorce from the banker 's son , and undoubtedly this was the solution most wished for by the family . The whole unsavory affair conveyed a good lesson to reckless young men of wealth to avoid entangling themselves in undesirable matrimonial adventures .