midnight
* * * * * Pen had not been in the habit of passing wakeful nights , so he at once fell off into a sound sleep . Even in later days , and with a great deal of care and other thoughtful matter to keep him awake , a man , from long practice or fatigue or resolution , _ begins _ by going to sleep as usual : and gets a nap in advance of Anxiety . But she soon comes up with him and jogs his shoulder , and says `` Come , my man , no more of this laziness , you must wake up and have a talk with me . '' Then they fall to together in the midnight . Well , whatever might afterward happen to him , poor little Pen was not come to this state yet ; he tumbled into a sound sleep -- did not wake until an early hour in the morning , when the rooks began to caw from the little wood beyond his bed-room windows ; and -- at that very instant and as his eyes started open , the beloved image was in his mind . `` My dear boy , '' he heard her say , `` you were in a sound sleep , and I would not disturb you : but I have been close by your pillow all this while : and I do n't intend that you shall leave me . I am Love !