midnight
Her chief difficulty was poor Majendie 's imperishable affection . She tried to protect herself from it to-night by feigning drowsiness . She lay still as a stone , stiff with her fear . Once , at midnight , she felt him stir , and turn , and raise himself on his elbow . She was conscious through all her unhappy being of the adoring tenderness with which he watched her sleep . At last she slept , and sleeping , she dreamed a strange dream . She found herself again in Westleydale , walking in green aisles of the holy , mystic , cathedral woods .