midnight
He sat in the carriage , at the door , while we entered . I did the agreeable to Mrs. Gorges , was introduced to her niece , Miss Fernanda ; I complimented Judge Jeffries on his decision in the great case of D'Aulnay _ vs. _ Laconia Mining Company ; I stepped into the dressing-room for a moment , stepped out for another , walked home after a nod with Dennis and tying the horse to a pump ; and while I walked home , Mr. Frederic Ingham , my double , stepped in through the library into the Gorges 's grand saloon . Oh ! Polly died of laughing as she told me of it at midnight ! And even here , where I have to teach my hands to hew the beech for stakes to fence our cave , she dies of laughing as she recalls it , -- and says that single occasion was worth all we have paid for it . Gallant Eve that she is ! She joined Dennis at the library-door , and in an instant presented him to Dr. Ochterlony , from Baltimore , who was on a visit in town , and was talking with her as Dennis came in .