About midnight
Soon after sunset he whispered to me the wrong he had done , and which he was quite sure you were retrieving . He acknowledged that he ought to have told me before , but pleaded his weakness and his dread of losing the only friend he had . It is needless to say I forgave him , forgave him for you and for myself ; and did it so heartily , that before I was conscious of the act I had stooped and kissed him . `` About midnight he said to me , ` Pray , Richard ; ' and surely I was helped to do so , for crowding into my memory came every blessed promise , every comforting hope , that could make the hour of death the hour of victory . And while I was saying , ` Behold the Lamb of God , who taketh away the sin of the world , ' he passed away . We were quite alone . The men were sleeping around , unconscious of ` Him that waited . '