midnight
`` You have not changed as much as my pretty Bertha here , '' remarked Maurice . `` She has gained a great deal in the last year . But you , Madeleine , look a little paler than ever , and a little thinner than you were . I fear it is because you still keep that candle burning which last year I used to notice at your window when I returned from balls long after midnight . You will destroy your health . '' `` There is no danger of _ that _ , '' answered Madeleine , gayly . `` I am in most unpoetically robust health .