midnight
`` Take him soon , God ! '' she prayed . `` He is too weak to try any more . '' At midnight she slipped away to her own room and took off the dainty gown she had put on for Sandy 's coming . For long hours she lay in her great canopied bed with wide-open eyes . The night was a noisy one , for there was a continual passing on the road , and occasional shouts came faintly to her . With heavy heart she lay listening for some sound from Carter 's room .