midnight
She was in her yellow dressing-gown , and the old pinched look was still in her face . ` Why are you stopping to gossip , Chatty ? ' she said querulously . ` I shall not have finished until midnight at this rate . Leah would have packed by this time . ' And Chatty , with rather a frightened look , carried in her pile of clean linen . I strolled about the garden for an hour , and then went back to the house .