midnight
`` Bless you , child ! lie down and keep quiet ; it 's not more than six o'clock . I wanted to see some more of you all by myself . I am out of punishment now ; it ended at midnight , and I am as free as anybody else ; but as it is extremely likely I shall be back in punishment by the evening , I thought we would have a little chat while I was able to have it . Just make way for me in your bed ; I 'll nestle up close to you , and we 'll be ever so jolly . '' `` Oh , do , '' said Nora , in a hearty tone . Molly scrambled in , taking the lion 's share of the bed , Nora lay on the edge .