midnight
She dressed herself and went quietly downstairs . `` You may as well come and have your breakfast , '' exclaimed Miss Recompense . `` Your uncle sent down word that he had a headache and begged not to be disturbed . He was up a long while after he came home last night ; it must have been past midnight when he went to bed . I wish he did not get so deeply interested in improvements and everything . And if we are to be bombarded and destroyed I do n't see any sense in laying out new streets and filling up ponds and wasting the money of the town . '' It seemed to Doris as if she could not swallow a mouthful .