midnight
`` Tell Mrs. Flynn to fetch her some tea and toast , me boy . Then she must go to bed for a few hours . '' The automobile , with Henderson at the wheel , was at the door before dawn . Jim had sent poor Sara on before midnight . Uncle Denny put Pen and Jim into the tonneau , then climbed up beside Henderson and the machine shot swiftly out on the great road . Pen did not speak for some time and Jim did not disturb her . She looked back at the Elephant as long as she could discern the great meditative form in the starlight .