midnight
Try as I would I could not help feeling that she had ill-will against me , and would lose no opportunity to do me an injury . Once I thought of speaking to my father about it ; but I dared not tell him that I had been to Fraddam 's cave at midnight ; that act was in itself enough to bring darkness to my future , if there were any truth in the stories which floated in the very atmosphere of my life . Days lengthened into weeks , and weeks into months , and nothing happened . Old Mally Udy passed and re-passed me , but she gave no sign of our midnight encounter . She dropped her usual curtsey of respect when she saw me . Thus it was that the awe of the night in Fraddam 's cave died out . I gave up seriously thinking about it , and as the affairs of the Trewinion estate began to rest on me my mind was fully occupied .