midnight
`` Yes , you are right ; although there is not one chance in a hundred of his recovery . He just lies with closed lips and eyes like a breathing corpse , '' said Mrs. Ellsworth , impatiently . `` I was a-thinkin ' this , '' said Sheila . `` It 's a dark night , and there 'll be no moon till midnight . I can carry her body in me arrums down to the road , and lay her under the tree by the creek , with the bottle of laudanum in her hand , and a little note , if ye choose to write it , a-sayin ' she is deserted by her lover , who refused to make her an honest wife , so she chooses ter die . Then the coroner 's ` quest will find the poison in her stomach , and all is over , and no suspicion of our part in her taking off . '' `` Capital , Sheila ! ''