Midnight
`` Of course not . '' `` It 's getting late , and your folks will be abed . '' He looked at his watch . `` Midnight ! Be here in an hour , and I 'll have the skiff ready . '' The light of sacrifice was in Necia 's eyes , and her cheeks were blanched with the pallor of a great resolution . She did not stop to reason why or how she had been led to this disposal of her future , but clutched desperately at Stark 's plan of rescue from her agonizing predicament .