midnight
In spite of herself she found her resolution gone , her indifference rebuked , her strength wasted , sapped . She was yielding to him when she meant to scorn . She was clinging to him when she meant to spurn . And now the last night , the last of their -- flirtation had come , and as she fluttered away on his arm to take their place in the dance , the cynosure of all eyes , Evelyn Darrah _ knew _ that she was facing her fate , that before the midnight hour she must answer . He would so have it . Recklessly enough she had begun . What meant such affairs to her but a laugh ?