midnight
`` I thought you 'd be surprised to find me sitting up , '' Mrs. Eveleth began again ; `` but the truth is , I could n't go to bed while -- '' `` I 'm glad you did n't , '' Diane broke in , with an evident intention to keep the conversation in her own hands . `` I 'm not in the least sleepy . I could sit here and talk till morning -- though I suppose it 's morning now . Really the time to live is between midnight and six o'clock . One has a whole set of emotions then that never come into play during the other eighteen hours of the day . They say it 's the minute when the soul comes nearest to parting with the body , so I suppose that 's the reason we can see things , during the wee sma ' hours , by the light of the invisible spheres . '' `` I should be quite content with the light of this world -- '' `` Oh , I should n't , '' Diane broke in , with renewed eagerness to talk against time .