midnight
She was ashamed of herself , and grew still angrier . `` If you 'd only think about some one beside yourself once in a while , '' said she . `` You quite wear people out , with your everlasting thinking and talking about yourself . '' `` You 'd better stop that midnight reading , '' flared he . `` Your temper is going to the devil . '' She rose with great dignity ; with an expression that seemed to send him tumbling and her soaring she went into the house . In some moods he would have lain where he fell for quite a while .