midnight
Well , it has helped the undertaker , the jail and the poorhouse . Well , the next day Arvilly come down lookin ' white and peaked , but did n't say anything about her eclipse ; no , the darkness wuz too awful and solemn to talk about . But she showed me Waitstill 's letter . In it she said she had been for several days caring for a very sick woman for half the night , and at midnight she would go back to the hospital , and every night for a week she had seen a bent figure creeping along as if looking for something , payin ' no attention to anything only what he had in the searchin ' eyes of his mind . It wuz Elder Wessel lookin ' for Lucia , so Waitstill said . It wuz Love waitin ' and lookin ' out , hoping and fearing . Poor father -- poor girl !