midnight
` Consider the lilies , how they grow . ' '' `` With their long rubbery stems , up out of mud mostly , '' Thaine said carelessly . `` I pretty nearly grew fast along with them down there , till I learned how to gather them a better way . '' The woodland shadows were thrust through with shafts of white moonbeams , giving a weird setting to the silent midnight hour . The odor of woods ' blossoms came with the moist , fresh breath of the May night . There was a little song of waters gurgling down the spillway that was once only a dry draw choked with wild plum bushes . The road wound picturesquely through the grove to a bridged driveway that separated the lakelet into two parts .