midnight
` That is the question , ' as I lately read in a newspaper . '' But Emma , awaking , cried out -- `` The letter ! the letter ! '' They thought she was delirious ; and she was by midnight . Brain-fever had set in . For forty-three days Charles did not leave her . He gave up all his patients ; he no longer went to bed ; he was constantly feeling her pulse , putting on sinapisms and cold-water compresses .