midnight
`` How hideously like my father , this old bookworm , '' murmured the frightened girl in a strange repulsion , as she fled away to her room . It was a grateful relief when the servant maid announced that the travelers would be served in their rooms . `` The Master lives entirely alone , '' the girl said shortly . Late that first night the lonely girl sat gazing at the windows rattling under the flying wrack , while Douglas Fraser and his father communed below her until the midnight hour . Suddenly Justine Delande was summoned to join them `` on urgent business , '' and the heiress of a million sat with clasped hands , murmuring : `` Will he ever find me out here ? This is only a cheerless prison . I am , forever , lost to the world . ''