about midnight
But for all her skill and her cheerfulness , our patient visibly grew worse and worse , and as the year wore into winter , we saw that we should lose her . And now there befell a strange thing , which I will tell just as it happened , and I think there can be no superstition in dwelling on it so far . Aunt Golding 's sickness had now become so sore , that it was needful for one of us always to watch with her ; and on the night I speak of it was my turn to do so . She was very uneasy the first part of my watch , but about midnight she fell into a deep sleep , and continued so for an hour , when , hearing no sound , I went to look on her , and saw such heavenly peace on her sleeping countenance , that I could have thought a light shone from it like the glory about a saint 's head in a picture . I do not know how long I had stood gazing on her , when all at once she woke , and , smiling at me , -- ` Is it thou , Lucy ? ' said she ; ` that is well . I have good news for thee ; ' at which I began to fear she was light-headed , for how should she have news that I knew not ?