midnight
Just at this moment Anne laid her finger on her lips and glanced impressively at a table on the other side of the room . There sat Amy with Peggy Porter and Norma , all of them dreamily imbibing ice cream sodas , just as though Shakespearian rehearsals were occasions unknown in their engagement calendars . Kit rose and crossed the room with caution until she stood behind Amy and intoned sepulchrally from Macbeth : `` What ho ! Ye secret , black and midnight hags , what is ' t ye do ? '' `` Well , we waited fifteen minutes for you , '' protested Amy , laughingly , `` and Norma had to come down-town to try and find some high boots like Julia Marlowe wore for Rosalind . She 's had that old picture of her pinned up on the wall for two weeks . '' `` Oh , and listen , Kit , '' Norma broke in ; `` you know that suede brown leather table cover of mine ; I just took and slashed it around the edges and bent it over an old tam-o ' - shanter crown and it looks exactly like the hat she wore .