midnight
Her hair was black and smooth and heavy , and lay on either side of her face like a starling 's wings . Her eyes too were as black as midnight , and sometimes like midnight they were deep and sightless . But when she was neither working nor spinning she would steal away to the millstones , and stand there watching and listening . And then there were two stars in the midnight . She came away from those stolen times powdered with flour . Her black hair and her brows and lashes , her old blue gown , her rough hands and fair neck , and her white face -- all that was dark and pale in her was merged in a mist , and seen only through the clinging dust of the millstones . She would try to wipe off all the evidences of her secret occasions , but her father generally knew .