midnight
Soon the house lay in deep quiet : even the sick child in the highest story lay calmly sleeping on her cool pillows . She did not even notice when Mrs. Maxa stepped up once more to her bedside with a little lamp . Before herself retiring she wanted to listen once more to the child 's breathing . Only the two new friends were still talking long after midnight . They understood each other so thoroughly and upon all points that Bruno had proposed in his enthusiasm that they would not waste one minute of the night in sleep . Salo expressed his wish over and over again that Bruno might become his comrade in the boarding school . But finally victorious sleep stole unperceived over the two lads and quietly closed their eyes .