midnight
At dinner-time her mother came up tired and out of breath from the town . She had had to promise the Antonisens to stand at their cake-stall on the market-place through the fair-week and help sell . It was hardly-earned money in the cold there and in the middle of all that shouting and bawling ; but she would do her duty , and not swerve from it when there was a penny to earn . It would not be closed and packed up before midnight , so she must stay down there these few nights . There was a buzzing and singing in Silla 's ears ; it was as if the door were opening to her of itself . She could go now if she liked . She was almost frightened .