midnight
`` She has . And it will be fuel on the flames to have me start to swim back to shore while she is swimming as hard as she can to the raft ! '' said the lady , tucking the last escaping lock under her cap and springing up for the plunge that started the home trip . It was only a little after midnight that night when Julie , lying wakeful in the sultry summer darkness , was startled by a person in her room . `` It 's Emma , Miss Ives , '' said Mrs. Arbuthnot 's maid , stumbling about , `` Mrs. Arbuthnot wants you . '' `` She 's ill ! '' Julie felt rather than said the words , instantly alert and alarmed , and reaching for her wrapper and slippers .