about midnight
Then after a little she fell asleep ; she was of too practical a nature to be kept long awake by anything which had no power of actual bodily effect upon her . No stress of the spirit had ever disturbed her slumbers . So she slumbered between the red roses , or the peacocks , she did not know which . But she was awakened about midnight by a strange sensation in her throat . She had dreamed that some one with long white fingers was strangling her , and she saw bending over her the face of an old woman in a white cap . When she waked there was no old woman , the room was almost as light as day in the full moonlight , and looked very peaceful ; but the strangling sensation at her throat continued , and besides that , her face and ears felt muffled . She put up her hand and felt that her head was covered with a ruffled nightcap tied under her chin so tightly that it was exceedingly uncomfortable .