nearly midnight
No , he did not like the look which he had seen on Laura 's face as she had talked about the war and the fat profits to be made . Was this all we Yankees had to say to the people over in Europe ? Frowning and glancing at Deborah 's back , he saw that she was tired . It was nearly midnight , but still she kept working doggedly on , moving her shoulder muscles at times as though to shake off aches and pains , then bending again to her labor , her fight against such heavy odds in the winter just beginning for those children in the tenements . He recalled a fragment of the appeal she had made to him only the month before : `` Ca n't you see that we 're all of us stunned , and trying to see what war will mean to all the children in the world ? And while we 're groping , groping , ca n't we give each other a hand ? '' And as he looked at his daughter , she made him think of her grandmother , as she had so often done before .