midnight
He told me to put on my cloak and run to Gimmerton for the doctor and the parson . I could not guess the use that either would be of , then . However , I went , through wind and rain , and brought one , the doctor , back with me ; the other said he would come in the morning . Leaving Joseph to explain matters , I ran to the children 's room : their door was ajar , I saw they had never lain down , though it was past midnight ; but they were calmer , and did not need me to console them . The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on : no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did , in their innocent talk ; and , while I sobbed and listened , I could not help wishing we were all there safe together . Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral ; and -- a thing that amazed us , and set the neighbours gossiping right and left -- he brought a wife with him . What she was , and where she was born , he never informed us : probably , she had neither money nor name to recommend her , or he would scarcely have kept the union from his father .