midnight
`` Perhaps I have no more . '' `` I have asked no explanation of you . '' `` True ; yet you can not be devoid of curiosity . You meet me after midnight , wandering alone in the streets ; you see me boldly , shamelessly , interfering to prevent the arrest of a strange man ; you hear me deliberately falsify , again and again . What could you think of such a woman ? Then I accept your invitation , and accompany you here , believing you a criminal . What possible respect could you , or any other man , entertain for a girl guilty of such indiscretion ? ''