midnight
She sat with the cheque in her hand a long time , considering what to do with it . Her natural vanity and pride , her sense of superior intelligence , education , travel , and experience urged her to take whatever good it might bring her . And she went to sleep resolving to do so . But she awoke in the midnight with a strange sense of humiliation . In that time of questions she was troubled by soul-inquiries that came one upon another close as the blows of a lash . She was then shocked at the intentions with which she had fallen asleep . The little vanities , and condescensions , and generosities which she had planned for her own glory -- how contemptible they appeared !