About midnight
That 's just about what we 're put into this world for , and we 're not fit to go out of it till we have found this out . '' Now the moralities of conversation were apt to glide off from Sharley like rain-drops from gutta-percha , and I can not assert that these words would have made profound impression upon her had not Halcombe Dike 's mother happened to say them . Be that as it may , she certainly took them home with her , and pondered them in her heart ; pondered till late in her feverish , sleepless night , till her pillow grew wet , and her heart grew still . About midnight she jumped out into the cold , and kneeled , with her face hidden in the bed . `` O , I 've been a naughty girl ! '' she said , just as she might have said it ten years ago . She felt so small , and ignorant , and weak that night .