midnight
You will go abroad without me -- at all events for the present . ' ` If that is your resolve , ' answered the other , quietly , ` I shall keep my word , and only do what I can to aid it . ' She sat down shielding her eyes from the sunlight with a Japanese fan . ` After all , Sidwell , there 's much to be said for a purpose formed on such a morning as this ; one ca n't help distrusting the midnight . ' Sidwell was lying back in a low chair , her eyes turned to the woody hills on the far side of the Exe . ` There 's one thing I should like to say , ' her friend pursued . ` It struck me as curious that you were not at all affected , by what to me would have been the one insuperable difficulty . '