midnight
`` Go down and tell her , Maverick , when you are in that direction . '' Maverick nodded . Darcy was just in time to catch his train . There had been quite a fall of snow from midnight to dawn , and the trees were glittering with thousands of diamond-sparks and patches of fleecy ermine . The winding roads were white ; the cottages and the fence-posts were hooded ; and the snow caught all the tints of sun and shadowy lights , reflecting them back like a mirror . His heart was so light as they whirled along , he smiled , and could hardly forbear shouting at a group of boys who were snow-balling by the roadside . He met Miss McLeod at Mr. Hildreth 's .