Midnight
It 's been going on right under my eye , and I too blind and taken up with my own affairs to see it The poor laddie , '' he cried . `` The poor fool laddie ! '' Understanding that a discussion of the marriage in her presence was an impossibility , Nancy left us , with a white face , on some pretense of business at the Burnside , and Sandy and I talked it out between us . Midnight found us going back and forth over the matter and arriving at the same point , that the chances of happiness for a man wedded to one woman and in love with another are just nothing at all . I could feel that there was one question in Sandy 's mind which he could scarce bring himself to ask , and I took the suggestion of it upon myself . `` It will bring many changes to us , '' I said , `` and to none more than Nancy . '' `` Do you think she cares for him ? ''