midnight
`` If it be money , the deacon has mair than is good for him to hae ; if it be marriage , it will be Isabel Strang , and that the deacon wont like . But it is his ain wife Davie is choosing , and I am for letting the lad hae the lass he likes best . '' Jenny had come to these conclusions in ten minutes , but she waited patiently for an hour before she interrupted her master . Then the clock struck midnight , and she felt herself aggrieved . `` Deacon , '' she said sharply , `` ye should mak the day day and the night night , and ye would if ye had a three weeks ' ironing to do the morn . It has chappit twelve , sir . '' `` Jenny , I 'm not sleeplike to-night .