midnight
`` Aunt Judy is dead ! '' she explained ; `` and Aunt Hester is very ill . Mother is upstairs with them -- _ her _ -- now . I have just come from the room , where I have been since midnight . '' She stopped , raised her hand to her hair as if recollecting something , and stood looking sideways out of the window . `` There is something about you this morning , '' he said , with a concentrated deliberation , `` that brings back the old Prague days . I suppose it is that I have not seen your hair as you have it to-day -- since then . ''