midnight
`` The Saints will tell me what to do , '' she said . `` The good Saints , who are always gracious , they will vouchsafe to me some thought which will instruct me if I remain long enough at prayer . '' She remained in prayer a long time . When at last she arose from her knees it was long past midnight , and she was tired and weak , but the thought had not been given to her . But just as she laid her head upon her pillow it came . The ornaments given to her by her Aunt Clotilde somebody would buy them . They were her own -- it would be right to sell them -- to what better use could they be put ?