midnights
She had lived in that residence for over forty years . She had brought up eleven children and two husbands there . She had coddled thirty-five grand-children there , and given instruction to some half-dozen daughters-in-law . She had known midnights when she could scarcely move in that residence without disturbing somebody asleep . Now she was alone in it . She never left it , except to fetch water from the pump in the square . She had seen a lot of life , and she was tired .