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She never should forgive herself `` if anything was to happen '' and she was not on the spot . She declines to enter on the question , mooted by the maid , how the spot comes to be there , and not in her room -LRB- which is nearer to Sir Leicester 's -RRB- , but staunchly declares that on the spot she will remain . Volumnia further makes a merit of not having `` closed an eye '' -- as if she had twenty or thirty -- though it is hard to reconcile this statement with her having most indisputably opened two within five minutes . But when it comes to four o'clock , and still the same blank , Volumnia 's constancy begins to fail her , or rather it begins to strengthen , for she now considers that it is her duty to be ready for the morrow , when much may be expected of her , that , in fact , howsoever anxious to remain upon the spot , it may be required of her , as an act of self-devotion , to desert the spot . So when the trooper reappears with his , `` Had n't you better go to bed , miss ? '' and when the maid protests , more sharply than before , `` You had a deal better go to bed , Miss Dedlock ! '' she meekly rises and says , `` Do with me what you think best ! ''