midnight
`` Whow ! Ooo ! '' yawned Peggy , to whom late hours were a novelty and who felt as though she had dropped asleep only ten minutes before . `` Why , Polly Howland , it 's pitch dark , and midnight ! I know it is , '' she protested . `` How do you know there are stockings there , anyway ? '' `` I was shivering and when I reached over to get the puff cover my hand touched something bumpy .