twelve o'clock at night
`` She wanted it so much , '' -- Faith said , catching her breath a little . `` And understood it , Mr. Linden . Very soon it was all -- or mostly -- clear to her . I read to her sometimes till twelve o'clock at night -- and sometimes began at four in the morning . '' Mr. Linden looked at her with a mingling of expressions . `` I am afraid that was not good for you , -- if one dare say it of any work done in that service . Do you know how much the Bible is like that pillar of fire which guided the Israelites , but to those who were not of Israel became a pillar of cloud , -- from which ` the Lord looked out ' but ` to trouble them ' ? ''