midnight before
`` I think I 'll make you out a list , '' said Eva Norton , laughingly . `` Do , and send it in a letter with your approval and disapproval of the characters so I shall know what to copy and what to avoid . `` And now you must have one dance . '' Zay thought it rather late , but her brother overruled and they had a merry time , but it was midnight before they returned . Major Crawford and his wife often had their breakfast in the dainty sitting room up stairs . Zay just glanced in to bid them good-morning as Willard was impatiently calling her down . She had not slept very well and had a headache , and she would not go out for a walk with him .