midnight
Of course , I think the world of Blanch , and she seems to think I am the best fellow in the world . Little do any of them know or even guess that it is you for whom I am working , and always with the hope that you will deem me worthy of the great prize you well know I am striving for . How many times I recall every moment of that one short hour on the old mill-pond , and all that made it sacred to me , no one can tell . I go out little except to escort mother and the girls to the theatre once in a while , and so anxious am I to be able to pass an examination , I often go to the office and read law till midnight . '' When this effusion reached Alice the mountains around Sandgate were just putting on their autumn glory of color , and that night when she sat on the porch and heard the katydids in the fast thinning foliage of the elms she had what she called an old-fashioned fit of the blues . And how lonely it was there , too ! Aunt Susan , never a talkative person , sat close , but as dumb as a graven image ; no house near , and only the twinkling lights of several the other side of the valley visible .