midnight
`` I am always afraid to sleep now , for fear he should call and his mother fail to hear him . '' Knowing it was of no use to entreat , I sat down by the table and tried to read . Three hours passed on . When the clock struck midnight she started up , with the wild light in her sunken blue eyes . `` He is calling , '' she cried , `` calling out there in the storm . Yes , yes , sweet , I am coming ! '' She opened the door and fled down the path to the shore .