about ten o'clock
as she has turned oot -- cam to sit up for the nicht . The doors were baith steekit , and the lamp was blawn out in the expectation that she would fa ' asleep , and I was lying waukin , with the _ worm in my lug _ , when I hears a rap at the windock , just as ye heard it , and something said _ Lizzy _ , as laigh and as plain as I 'm saying it enoo . Aweel , I startit up , expecting to find the dear lassie a corpse , but it was some time before I could gang ben to see ; and when I did gang ben , I found her waukening frae a sleep ; and Lizzy Duncan said she had sleepit mair than twa hours . But , from that minute , I kenned brawly what was to happen , and from that minute she grew waur and waur , till the neist nicht about ten o'clock , when the speerit left her weel-faured clay to the worms . Sae , Margate , never build yoursel up in Nelly 's nonsense about _ lads _ ; she 's a puir haverin body ; and , as shure as the sun rises and sets , your Mary is gaun fast from this world , e ` en as my Lizzy gaed before her . '' The poor mother was affected to tears by these lugubrious observations . The propriety of apprising Mary of her approaching fate was next adverted to by Nanny .