midnight
Lights already gleamed in the school-buildings straight before us and the sight of them smote me with loneliness . `` Olivia Gladys Armstrong , '' she said , laughing , brushed past me through the gate and ran lightly over the snow toward St. Agatha 's . I read in the library until late , hearing the howl of the wind outside with satisfaction in the warmth and comfort of the great room . Bates brought in some sandwiches and a bottle of ale at midnight . `` If there 's nothing more , sir -- '' `` That is all , Bates . '' And he went off sedately to his own quarters . I was restless and in no mood for bed and mourned the lack of variety in my grandfather 's library .