midnight
There was no thoroughfare . Sammy was allowed to withdraw , and the council of two was resumed . As a result of its deliberations , Pap John drove away through the darkness and the sleet . By midnight two trips had been made between the big double log house at the Overholt place and the wretched cabin on The Bench , and all that Sammy would suffer to be brought to them or done for them had been brought and done . The cabin was , in a very humble way , inhabitable . There was food and a small provision for the immediate present . And here , upon that wild March night of screaming wind and sleet , and with only Aunt Cornelia as doctor and nurse , Huldy 's child was born .