midnight
We were spending the night with a family in the usual one-room log cabin . We occupied the company bed while our host and hostess occupied one in the opposite corner . By this time I had become resigned to this close-communion hospitality and must have slept soundly . But some time after midnight I was awakened by the deep groans of my husband . Instantly I sat up in bed , and by the light of the moon through the window I saw his face white and ghastly and covered with sweat as if he were in mortal pain . His eyes were yawning at the dark with no real light in them . And his mouth was drawn down into Jeremiah lines of woe that are indescribable .