midnight
`` Sit down and look at them a bit . That 'll satisfy you and you 'll sleep easy enough . I must shut the window for you . '' She shut the window and moved a book or so as if such things were usually done at midnight . She went about in a quiet matter-of-fact way which was even gentler than her customary gentleness because in these days , while trying to preserve a quite ordinary demeanour , she felt as though she must move as one would move in making sure that one would not startle a bird one loved . Robin sat and looked at the pictures . When she turned a page and looked at it she turned it again and looked at it with dwelling eyes .