midnight
James Rutlidge regarded her with a smile of triumphant satisfaction . `` Really , '' he said , at last , `` you do not seem at all glad to see me . '' She made no reply . `` I am frightfully hungry '' -- he continued , with a short laugh , moving toward her as she stood in the door of the cabin -- `` I 've been walking since midnight I was in such a hurry to get here that I did n't even stop for breakfast . '' She stepped out , and moved away from the door . With another laugh , he entered the cabin . Presently , when he had helped himself to food , he went back to the girl who had seated herself on a log , at the farther side of the little clearing .