midnight
`` What 's a round ? '' demanded Nance , but nobody had time to enlighten her . It was not until the end of the second act that her name was called , and she went scampering up the stairs as fast as her clumsy suit would permit . The stage was set for a forest scene , with gnarled trees and hanging vines and a transparent drop that threw a midnight blue haze over the landscape . `` Crawl up on the stump there ! '' ordered Reeser , attending to half a dozen things at once . `` Put you four paws together .