midnight
`` Very well . I 'll look at the house and decide to-morrow . '' As the servant came in to lay the table , Gabriella dismissed the subject of Fanny 's school , and opened the book -- it chanced to be a volume of Browning -- which she was reading aloud to the children . `` I am really worried about Fanny , '' she said to Miss Folly at midnight , while she lingered in the living-room before going to bed . `` I honestly do n't know what to make of her , and I feel , somehow , that she is one of my failures . '' `` Well , you ca n't expect everything to go the way you want it . Did you see the judge ? ''