midnight
`` Call me up to-morrow at eight , Bubseley , '' she giggled . The pet names were of Gay 's choice . So Bubseley tottered down the walk while Babseley turned out the lights and retired to her room with a bag of candy and a paprika-brand of novel . At midnight she tossed it aside and with self-pity prepared to go to sleep . `` And I 'll have to go to work to-morrow , '' she sighed , planning her next silk dress as she did up the Titian hair in curlers . WHEN the world was considerably younger it dressed children in imitation of its adults -- those awful headdresses and heavy stays , long skirts to trip up tender little feet , and jewelled collars to make tiny necks ache . Now that the world `` is growing evil and the time is waxing late '' the grown-ups have turned the tables and they dress like the children -- witness thereof to be found in the costume of Aunt Belle Todd , Mark Constantine 's sister , who had shared her brother 's fortunes ever since his wife had been presented with the marble monument .