midnight
But there was another perfume too . Far down the sky swept some fleet and sparkling thing that made the world look different . It was delicate and many-tinted , soft as a swallow 's wing , and full of butterflies and tiny winds . For , with the last stroke of midnight from the old church tower , May had waked April ; and April had run off into the mountains with the dawn . Her final shower of tears still shone upon the ground . Already May was busy drying them . That afternoon , when school was over , Monkey and Jimbo found themselves in the attics underneath the roof together .