midnight
I suggested to him a trip to Europe to forget his sorrows , to recuperate his spirits . He liked the idea . But first he had to return to the Senate . There he spoke of Cuba and its annexation , almost in the same words he had used when talking to me that midnight on the roof of the hotel in Havana . Bitterly he denounced the Clayton-Bulwer treaty . Audaciously he excoriated England . Almost immediately he was off to visit England , but not to see Queen Victoria , although invited to her presence .