midnight
`` Come , '' she said compassionately , `` We will go ! '' They went out into the night and it was as if they had suddenly changed places , as if she were the protector and he the led . She guided him the quickest way . There was only a chance that they might catch the midnight train , but there was that chance . Into the subway she dived , he following , and breathless , they brought up at the Pennsylvania station at their train gate as it was being closed , and hurried through . All through that agonized night they spoke but few words , those two who had been so much to one another through long happy years . `` But you are not going too ? ''