midnight
Their hours are eternally the same , save for the alternation of suffering and rest . The nurse and the doctor are their sun and moon , relieving each other in the watches of day and night . As they are worse -- as they draw nearer to eternity , they are less and less governed by ideas of time . A dying person will receive a visit at midnight or at mid-day with no thought but to see the face of friend -- or foe -- once more . So I was not surprised to find that Miss Westonhaugh would see me ; in an interval of the fever she had been moved to a chair in her room , and her brother was with her . I might go in -- indeed she sent a very urgent message imploring that I would go . I went .