midnight
`` When a lady is ill and her husband pays no attention to her , and there 's somebody else not far off who would give his two eyes to save her a pain in her little finger , what is a woman to do ? '' I told her what she was _ not _ to do . She was not to call the doctor under any circumstances , and when Martin came she was to make it plain to him that she had acted on her own responsibility . Towards midnight he arrived , and Price brought him into my room in a long ulster covered with dust . I blushed and trembled at sight of him , for his face betrayed the strain and anxiety he had gone through on my account , and when he smiled at seeing that I was not as ill as he had thought , I was ashamed to the bottom of my heart . `` You 'll be sorry you 've made such a long journey now that you see there 's so little amiss with me , '' I said . `` Sorry ? ''