midnight
_ Very _ ill ? '' `` I thought I should die . The tale of my life seemed told . Every night , just at midnight , I used to wake from awful dreams ; and the book lay open before me at the last page , where was written ` Finis . ' I had strange feelings . '' `` You speak my experience . '' `` I believed I should never see you again ; and I grew so thin -- as thin as you are now .