midnight
Oh , you must ! -- SYLVIA . '' And having written them , Sylvia stole quietly down-stairs , let herself out at the door and posted them . Two nights afterward she leaned out of her window at midnight , wondering whether by the morrow 's post she would receive an answer to her message . And while she wondered she understood that the answer would not come that way . For suddenly in the moonlit road beneath her , she saw standing the one who was to send it . Chayne had brought his answer himself .