midnight in summer
-- Speak ! -RSB- He opened the door , and passed out into a small green field that lay behind the house . The night was calm , and the silence profound as death . Not a cloud obscured the heavens ; the light of the moon fell upon the stillness of the scene around him , with all the touching beauty of a moonlit midnight in summer . Here he paused a moment , felt his brow , then his heart , the palpitations of which fell audibly upon his ear . He became somewhat cooler ; the images of madness which had swept through his stormy brain disappeared , and were succeeded by a lethargic vacancy of thought , which almost deprived him of the consciousness of his own identity . From the green field he descended mechanically to a little glen which opened beside it .