midnight
Early on Monday afternoon ` Lina , taking advantage of Hugh 's absence , came over for her dress , finding much fault , and requiring some of the work to be done twice ere it suited her . Without a murmur Adah obeyed , but when the last stitch was taken and the party dress was gone , her overtaxed frame gave way , and Sam himself helped her to her bed , where she lay moaning , with the blinding pain in her head , which increased so fast that she scarcely saw the tempting little supper which Aunt Eunice brought , asking her to eat . Of one thing , however , she was conscious , and that of the dark form bending over her pillow and whispering soothingly the passage which had once brought Heaven to him , `` Come unto me , come unto me , and I will give you rest . '' The night had closed in dark and stormy , and the wintry rain beat fiercely against the windows ; but for this Sam did not hesitate a moment when at midnight Aunt Eunice , alarmed at Adah 's rapidly increasing fever , asked if he could find his way to Spring Bank . `` In course , '' he could , and in a few moments the old , shriveled form was out in the darkness , groping its way over fences , and through the pitfalls , stumbling often , and losing his hat past recovery , so that the snowy hair was dripping wet when at last Spring Bank was reached and he stood upon the porch . In much alarm Hugh dressed himself and hastened to the cottage . But Adah did not know him and only talked of dresses and parties , and George , whom she begged to come back and restore her good name .