midnight
She sighed and moved stiffly , and knew that she was tired and that she must get some sleep , because she could not sit down in one spot and think her way through the problems she had taken it upon herself to solve . So she got up and crept under the Navajo blanket upon the couch , tucked it close about her shoulders , and shut her eyes deliberately . Presently she fell asleep . Sometime in the still part of the night which comes after midnight , Jean woke slowly from dreaming of the old days that had been so vivid in her mind when she went to sleep . Just at first she did not know what it was that awakened her , though her eyes were open and fixed upon the lighted square of the window . She knew that she was in her room at the Lazy A , but just at first it seemed to her that she was there because she had always been sleeping in that room . She sighed and turned her face away from the moonlight , and closed her eyes again contentedly .