midnight
`` Conseeder advancing for the storage of the furnishings -- with the furnishings as security o ' course . And doin ' some cleanin ' toward the matter o ' what ma rent would be . Mind I 'm no sayin ' I would until I see the furnishings . I 'm on ' y conseederin ' -- I 'll have the matter o ' some ladders -- '' she peered again down the dark hallway , `` and I 'd want a neat ticket in the window -- '' At midnight , by the embers of their dying fire , Felicia lay with Dulcie 's rug about her , plaintively pretending from the feel of the chair , that she was the young Felice of those long years ago , journeying toward the beloved House in the Woods . It was an easy pretense for she could glimpse the dark waters of the bay and the silent ships drifting on the tide . A spring fog seeped through the open windows and she was quite as miserable as she had been on that memorable trip . Beside her in her own chair , Dulcie talked and talked , a thousand details that Felicia 's tired wits could not follow .