midnight
Charlotte Halliday was a very different creature from the mother whom Mr. Sheldon had absorbed into himself . Georgy was one of the women who have `` no characters at all , '' but Georgy 's daughter was open to the charge of eccentricity rather than of inanity . She was a creature of fancies and impulses . She had written wild verses in the secrecy of her own chamber at midnight , and had torn her poetic effusions into a thousand fragments the morning after their composition . She played and sang very sweetly , and danced admirably , and did everything in a wild way of her own , which was infinitely more charming than the commonplace perfection of other women . She was not a beauty according to those established rules which everybody believes in until they meet a woman who sins against them all and yet is beautiful . Miss Halliday had thick black eyebrows , and large gray eyes which people were apt to mistake for black .