midnight
Curse them all ! Come , girls , we must go back . '' I took a cold that night . Belem was damp always , but its midnight damp was worse than any other . Mrs. Somers sent me medicine . Adelaide asked me , with an air of contemplation , what made me sick , and felt her own pulse . Ann criticised my nightgown ruffles , and accused me of wearing imitation lace ; but nursing was her forte , and she stayed by me , annoying me by a frequent beating up of my pillow , and the bringing in of bowls of strange mixtures for me to swallow , which she persuaded the cook to make and her father to taste .