midnight
My time is short . I want tobacco . The washing can be done by-and-by , but not the smoking . '' They were ushered up to the reception-room , where Countess Ammiani , Vittoria , and Carlo sat , awaiting the visitor whose unexpected name , cast in their midst at so troubled a season , had clothed her with some of the midnight 's terrors . Barto Rizzo had silence about him without having to ask for it , when he followed Violetta into Countess Ammiani 's saloon of reception . Carlo was leaning over his mother 's chair , holding Vittoria 's wrist across it , and so enclosing her , while both young faces were raised to the bowed forehead of the countess . They stood up .