midnight
`` Jack promised to take me up to Hartley to-day , '' she explained over her shoulder . `` When I come back , you 'll show me just where it was , wo n't you , Gene ? You do n't suppose it would walk in the grove in the daytime , do you ? Because I 'm awfully fond of the grove , and I do hope it will be polite enough to confine its perambulations entirely to the conventional midnight hour . '' Gene did not make any reply . Indeed , he seemed wholly absorbed in staring after her and wondering just how much or how little of it she meant . Evadna looked back , midway between the gate and the stable , and , when she saw him standing exactly as she had left him , she waved her hand and smiled .