nine o'clock
`` Darling , '' she said , `` could you sleep as well in my big chair , which can be tipped back ? '' `` Certainly , sweet , '' I said ; `` but why ? '' `` Because that can be drawn up so much nearer me ; it will be like sleeping together . '' At nine o'clock the nurse brought the baby in and laid him in Annie 's bosom , sound asleep . Annie would not let him lie anywhere else , and was so grieved at any remonstrance , that the doctor said she must be indulged in the desire . When she was awake and was not speaking to us , her eyes never left the baby 's face . She turned over , with her face to the chair in which I lay , and reached out her left hand towards me .