midnight
`` That is hope enough to work on . Tell me now , exactly what to do . '' Reginald 's plans had long been perfected , and by the noon of the third day the beautiful home was nothing but bare walls and bare floors . That same night , Reginald Rath and his sister left Glasgow by the midnight train , and the following morning , Bruce Kinlock , with his wife and five children , moved into the dismantled house , and in two days it was in a fairly habitable condition . There was , of course , confusion and a multitude of bustling servants and helpers , and a pretty , frail-looking little lady , sitting helplessly in a large chair , and Bruce ordering round , and five children in every place they ought not be , but there was universal good temper , and pleasurable excitement , and a brilliantly lighted house , when on the following Saturday night , Neil drove up to his residence . He thought , at first , that Mrs. Ruleson had a dinner party , then he remembered Roberta 's reverence for the Sabbath , and knew she would not permit any dancing and feasting so near its daybreaking . The Sabbath observance was also his own strong religious tenet , he was an ardent supporter of Doctor Agnew and his extremist views , and therefore this illumination in the Ruleson mansion , so near to the Sabbath-day , offended him .