midnight
It did not occur to Winsome Charteris that Meg had been accustomed to tease her in something like this manner about every man under forty who had come to Craig Ronald on any pretext whatever -- from young Johnnie Dusticoat , the son of the wholesale meal-miller from Dumfries , to Agnew Greatorix , eldest son of the Lady Elizabeth , who came over from the castle with books for her grandmother rather oftener than might be absolutely necessary , and who , though a papist , had waited for Winsome three Sabbath days at the door of the Marrow kirk , a building which he had never previously entered during his life . Winsome went indignant to bed . It was altogether too aggravating that Meg should take on so , she said to herself . `` Of course I do not care a button , '' she said as she turned her hot cheek upon the pillow and looked towards the pale gray-blue of the window-panes , in which there was already the promise of the morning ; though yet it was hardly midnight of the short midsummer of the north . `` It would be too ridiculous to suppose that I should care for anybody whom I have only seen twice . Why , it was more than a year before I really cared for dear old grannie ! Meg might know better , and it is very silly of her to say things like that .