midnight
He saw that his friends had helped to save his mother this one great sorrow that she could not have borne , and he was grateful . Marilyn , up at the parsonage , with a great thankfulness upon her , went about with smiling face . The burden seemed to have lifted and she was glad . But that night at midnight there came the doctor from Economy driving hard and stopping at the parsonage . Cherry Fenner was dying and wanted to see Miss Marilyn . Would she come ? Cherry 's little bedroom under the roof was bright with the confusion of cheap finery scattered everywhere and swept aside at the sudden entrance of the death angel .