midnight
No frost , no trail , no famine now and again to cheer the monotony , and she getting older and piling it on with every sunrise . While this girl Freda -- he sighed his unconscious regret that he had missed being born under the flag of the Turk , and came back to Alaska . `` Well ? '' Both hands of the clock pointed perpendicularly to midnight , and it was high time he was getting down to the water-hole . `` Oh ! '' Freda started , and she did it prettily , delighting him as his fellows have ever been delighted by their womankind . When a man is made to believe that a woman , looking upon him thoughtfully , has lost herself in meditation over him , that man needs be an extremely cold-blooded individual in order to trim his sheets , set a lookout , and steer clear .