midnight
`` God forever bless her ! There is no mother like the mother that bore us ; we must aye remember that , Christina . But it is a dour , storm-like sky yon , '' he continued , pointing eastward . `` We shall have a snoring breeze before midnight . '' Then Christina thought of her lover again , and as they turned in to the fireside , she began to tell her brother her hopes and fears about Jamie , and to read him portions of a letter received that day from America . While Andrew 's trouble had been fresh and heavy on him , Christina had refrained herself from all speech about her lover ; she felt instinctively that it would not be welcome and perhaps hardly kind . But this night it fell out naturally , and Andrew listened kindly and made his sister very happy by his interest in all that related to Jamie 's future .