midnight
I want all the price of the ice-set took up even to them affectionate words they never put on . `` Your affectionate and loving wife , `` KITTY . '' When Ephraim put the little note back in his pocket , he took out his handkerchief and wiped his eyes . Her good neighbors and friends , even as far as Simpkinsville and Washington , had their little jokes over Mis ' Trimble 's giving her splendor-despising husband a swinging ice-pitcher , but they never knew of the two early trips of the twin pitcher , nor of the midnight comedy in the Trimble home . But the old man often recalls it , and as he sits in his front hall smoking his silver-mounted pipe , and shaking its ashes into the lava bowl that stands beside the ice-pitcher at his elbow , he sometimes chuckles to himself . Noticing his shaking shoulders as he sat thus one day his wife turned from the window , where she stood watering her geraniums , and said : `` What on earth are you a-laughin ' at , honey ? '' -LRB- She often calls him `` honey '' now . -RRB-