midnight
`` I could n't spare you now , Daddy . I want you with me every day . '' * * * * * -LSB- Sidenote : Miriam 's Prayer -RSB- Though long unused to prayer , Miriam prayed that night , very earnestly , that Ambrose North might not recover his sight ; that he might never see the daughter who lived and spoke in the likeness of her dead mother . It was long past midnight when she fell asleep . The house had been quiet for several hours . As she slept , she dreamed . The door opened quietly , yet with a certain authority , and Constance , in her grave-clothes , came into her room .