midnight
`` Perhaps your mother knows , '' suggested Whiteface . `` I do n't think so , '' Danny replied . `` Father always said it was a mystery . It was very late at night -- almost midnight , I guess . '' `` We must see her , Robert , and thank her for taking care of Gary . '' `` Yes , '' said Whiteface , `` she kept him after her husband 's death -- with five children of her own . She must have liked him very -- '' `` She does , '' Chris interrupted eagerly .