About ten o'clock
`` I know it is wicked for me to repine . '' Katy read the whole psalm , and followed it with others , which produced a healing influence upon her mother 's mind , and she seemed to forget that the purse was empty , and that they had placed themselves under obligations to a servant . The sufferer rested much better than usual that night , and Katy was permitted to sleep the greater part of the time -- a boon which her exhausted frame very much needed . About ten o'clock in the forenoon , Michael paid her a visit , to inform her that Mrs. Gordon had just arrived : and that , when he mentioned her case , she had sent him down to request her immediate attendance and that his mistress would have come herself , only she was so much fatigued by her journey . Katy could not leave then , for she had no one to stay with her mother ; but Mrs. Sneed could come in an hour . Michael hastened home with the intelligence that Mrs. Redburn was better , and Katy soon followed him . On her arrival at Temple Street , Katy was promptly admitted by Michael , and shown in the sitting-room , where Mrs. Gordon and Grace were waiting for her .