midnight
`` Never mind , mine is here all in hard chink ! '' said the elder nurse , striking her bosom . `` Here will be enough , with what the doctor allows for the patients , to give us one glorious night . Just help me lift the woman into bed , then slide round to the consumption wards ; or , what 's better , whisper a word to the orderly , and ask him to come ; we 'll make the old shanty shake again before midnight . '' The young woman , after appeasing her disappointment by casting the lock of hair upon the floor , and grinding it fiercely beneath her heavy shoe , became somewhat consoled . But she sullenly expressed a determination to find her share of the drink , if she were obliged to rob every patient in the ward . After this conference the nurses returned to the ward .