midnight
Then it is for thee to wail likewise , claiming that this thing is not well , and that the other thing thou dost not like , and that to be the wife of the Factor is more than thou didst bargain for , only wilt thou be content with more blankets , and more tobacco , and more wealth of various sorts for thy poor old father , Snettishane . Remember well , when I call in the night , like a raven , from the river bank . '' Lit-lit nodded ; for to disobey her father was a peril she knew well ; and , furthermore , it was a little thing he asked , a short separation from the Factor , who would know only greater gladness at having her back . She returned to the feast , and , midnight being well at hand , the Factor sought her out and led her away to the Fort amid joking and outcry , in which the squaws were especially conspicuous . Lit-lit quickly found that married life with the head-man of a fort was even better than she had dreamed . No longer did she have to fetch wood and water and wait hand and foot upon cantankerous menfolk . For the first time in her life she could lie abed till breakfast was on the table .