midnight
She had one day found it necessary to lock the door of her soul upon them ; in the new knowledge that had taken sweet possession of her she recognized that they were no longer theoretical , that they must be put away . She challenged herself to sit in a jury upon Love , and found herself disqualified . The discovery had no remarkable effect upon Janet . She sometimes wasted an hour , pen in hand , in inconsequent reverie , and worked till midnight to make up ; and she took a great liking for impersonal conversations with Miss Halifax about Kendal 's pictures , methods and meanings . She found dining in Royal Geographical circles less of a bore than usual , and deliberately laid herself out to talk well . She looked in the glass sometimes at a little vertical line that seemed to be coming at the corners of her mouth , and wondered whether at twenty-four one might expect the first indication of approaching old-maidenhood . When she was paler than usual she reflected that the season was taking a good deal out of her .