midnight
`` I ca n't imagine Fanny Armstrong in such a place . '' `` It 's true , nevertheless . Ella Stewart says Mrs. Armstrong has aged terribly , and looks as if she is hardly able to walk . '' I lay and thought over some of these things until midnight . The electric lights went out then , fading slowly until there was only a red-hot loop to be seen in the bulb , and then even that died away and we were embarked on the darkness of another night . Apparently only a few minutes elapsed , during which my eyes were becoming accustomed to the darkness . Then I noticed that the windows were reflecting a faint pinkish light , Liddy noticed it at the same time , and I heard her jump up .