midnight
`` I 'm a new being ! '' She ventured to look him over more freely , upon this assurance . He perceived and catalogued , one by one , the emotions which the small brain was expressing through those shallow blue eyes of hers . She was turning over this , that , and the other hostile thought and childish grievance -- most of all she was dallying with the idea of asking him where he had been till after midnight . He smiled affably in the face of this scattering fire of peevish glances , and did not dream of resenting any phase of them all . `` I am going down to Thurston 's this morning , and order that piano sent up today , '' he announced presently , in a casual way . `` Why , Theron , can we afford it ? ''