midnight
Did you know that it only costs about two dollars and thirteen cents to feed a hen a whole year and that she will produce twenty-seven dollars and a half for her owner , the darling thing ? I know I 'll just love her when I get to know her -- them better , as I will in only about eighteen hours now . '' `` Ann , you are mad -- mad ! '' foamed Matthew , as he set down his plate of perfectly good and untasted food , and buried his head in his hands until his mop of black hair looked like a big blot of midnight . `` I 'm not mad , Matthew , just dead poor , an heiress out of a job and with the necessity of earning her bread by the sweat of her brow instead of consuming cake by the labor of other people . Uncle Cradd is coming in again with a two-horse wagon , and the carriage to move us out to Elmnest to-morrow morning . Judge Rutherford will attend to selling all the property and settle with father 's creditors .