midnight
On Julian 's return home one evening , he had found her stretched upon the floor , unconscious , foaming at the mouth , and struggling horribly . Since then , he had come back every night in agonies of miserable anticipation . Her illness , and his own miseries , were of course much intensified by her self-willed habits . When she remained away from home till after midnight , Julian was always in fear lest some accident had happened to her , and once or twice of late she had declared -LRB- whether truly or not it was impossible to say -RRB- that she had had fits in the open street . Weather made no difference to her ; she would leave home on the pretence of making necessary purchases , and would come back drenched with rain . Protest availed nothing , save to irritate her . At times her conduct was so utterly unreasonable that Julian looked at her as if to see whether she had lost her senses .