midnight
`` I 'm glad your glasses are full , or I should say -- '' There was , I think , a little heat for a moment on both sides . `` The wires are evidently crossed somewhere , '' he said calmly . `` My Olivia Armstrong is a droll child from Cincinnati , whose escapades caused her to be sent home for discipline to-day . She 's a little mite who just about comes to the lapel of your coat , her eyes are as black as midnight -- '' `` Then she did n't talk to Pickering and his friends at the station this morning -- the prettiest girl in the world -- gray hat , gray coat , blue eyes ? You can have your Olivia ; but who , will you tell me , is mine ? '' I pounded with my clenched hand on the table until the candles rattled and sputtered . Stoddard stared at me for a moment as though he thought I had lost my wits .