midnight
`` I can not do without a nurse girl . '' `` But a week or two may restore Marilla . '' The nurse came , a wholesome middle aged body who had been for weeks with a helpless paralytic . And so the midnight found them all comfortable . Marilla was left on the lounge . Miss Armitage sat a long while in her soft wrapper planning about the child she felt she must rescue . Oh , she _ did _ want her .