midnight
`` O , they hired a passing carriage to take the men whose horses were stolen back to Castellamare , and they all cantered off , without saying a word to La Madre , and when they had turned a corner of the road , she began to laugh . O , how she laughed ! All the people laughed with her , and the children crowed and the dogs barked , for the rest of that whole day . `` And a neighbor who passed La Madre 's at midnight , said she was laughing out loud then . '' `` Signorina . '' Mae was passing down the long hall when she heard the whisper . She turned and saw Lisetta , with shining eyes and pink cheeks , standing at her side .