midnight
`` Your remark of a moment ago . I would n't add a word -- '' `` Pardon me , '' I smilingly interrupted , looking as fatherly as I could , `` but you _ have _ added this word , and now you must tell me what it means . You were going to speak of the interest she showed in the extraordinary jewel which Mr. Deane took from his pocket , and -- '' `` In what he said about the reward he expected . That is , she looked eagerly at the ruby , and sighed when he acknowledged that he expected it to bring him five hundred dollars before midnight . But any girl of means no larger than hers might do that . It would not be fair to lay too much stress on a sigh . '' `` Is not Miss Glover wealthy ?