midnight
` Truth stranger than fiction , ' you know , and that kind of thing , Yet it seems to answer . They 're excellent friends . '' The parade had been dismissed by this time , but I had changed my mind , and did not wait to see Colonel Colquhoun . I had to hurry back to make arrangements with regard to my patients in the hospital , and then I returned to town , and midnight saw me closeted once more with Sir Shadwell Rock . The revolting story I had heard in the barracks haunted me . I had thought incessantly of my poor little lady taken out of the school room to face a position which would be horrifying , even in idea , to a right minded woman of the world . What the girl 's mental sufferings must have been only a girl can tell .