midnight
`` I 'll walk up with you , '' he said protectively . But she would not allow him to walk up with her , and he yielded . He struck a match . They stumbled out , and , in the midnight of the passage , he took leave of her . Walking up Trafalgar Road , alone , she was so happy , so amazed , so relieved , so sure of him and of his fineness and of the future , that she could scarcely bear her felicity . It was too intense ... . At last her life was settled and mapped out .