midnight
But she would n't answer me . Seeing she still had something to say , and would n't leave until she said it , I put my feet back in bed and lay flat with my hands under my head and my eyes shut , and when at last I was fixed and quiet she began for a third time . I do n't remember a thing after that except a sort of monotone voice and something about people talking about me because I had accepted Whythe 's attentions when everybody knew -- I did n't hear what everybody knew , and not until I did hear a sound at the door did I wake up good , and then I jumped as if shot and asked her , half-asleep , if she were going to live with Mother and Sister and Sister Edwina and Miss Lily Lou when she was married , but she answered not . And since her midnight confession she hath not opened her mouth unto me and her little lips get together when she sees me coming , and from her friends I have learned that she is deeply distressed at my treatment of her . And to her friends I have said Rats ! and so endeth the efforts at friendship which she imagined she had made . I am never going to pretend to be friends with a person who is not truthful , and whom I understand as I understand Elizabeth Hamilton Carter .