midnight
`` Including the bridge ? '' inquired Linda . `` Including the bridge , '' said Peter . `` I 'll have to burn some midnight oil , but I can visualize the bridge . '' `` And is this house where you ` set up your rest , ' as you so beautifully said the other night at dinner , going to lay its corner stone and grow to its roof a selfish house , or is it going to be generous enough for a gracious lady and a flight of little footsteps ? '' Peter Morrison took off his hat . He turned his face toward the length of Lilac Valley and stood , very tall and straight , looking far away before him .