midnight
Captain Bodine and I will look after Mrs. Hunter . '' Mara gave the veteran a grateful glance and yielded . Then she buried her face in Mrs. Bodine 's neck , and was silent until she slept from physical exhaustion . Miss Ainsley , with multitudes of others , yielded to her terror at the passing of the midnight earthquake . She shrieked and half rose in her wild impulse to fly . Then apparently forgetting Clancy she piteously begged Dr. Devoe to give her something that would certainly bring oblivion for a few hours at least . He good-naturedly complied .