midnight
`` Do you think anything more will be said ? '' asked Grace anxiously . `` Not if I can help it , '' was the response . It was almost midnight when , after seeing Ruth Denton home , the four girls climbed the steps of Wayne Hall . `` It was lovely , was n't it , Anne ? '' declared Grace as she slipped into her kimono and began taking the pins from her hair . `` Yes , '' said Anne with a half sigh .