midnight
Down near Washington Square , Wade blinked his eyes and shook his head , and always re-read the reports from the sick-room . He was puzzled and sometimes there was a faraway look in his eyes . * * * * * Lutie 's baby came . He came long after midnight , and if he had been given the power at birth to take intelligent notice of things , he would have been vastly astonished to hear that his grandmother had been sitting up in an adjoining room with her son and daughter , anxiously , even fearfully , awaiting his advent into the world . And he would have been further astonished and perhaps distressed if any one had told him that his granny cried a little over him , and refused to go to her own home until she was quite sure that his little mother was all right . Moreover , he would have been gravely impressed by the presence of the celebrated Dr. Thorpe , and the extraordinary agony of that great big tall man who cowered and shivered and who would n't even look at him because he had eyes and thought for no one but the little mother . Older and wiser persons would have revealed considerable interest in the certificate of deposit that his grandmother laid on the bed beside him .