midnight
There 's two country sales I must go to , and some other things to settle . ' She nodded . ` Well , then , I can get some things ready , ' she said half to herself , staring across the baby into the fire . When David and Barbier were gone together ` up street , ' still talking over their plans , Louie leapt to her feet and laid the baby down -- carelessly , as though she no longer cared anything at all about it -- in the old-fashioned arm-chair wherein David spent so many midnight vigils . Then locking her hands behind her , she paced up and down the narrow room with the springing gait , the impetuous feverish grace , of some prisoned animal . Paris ! Her education was small , and her ignorance enormous .