midnight
She could get work , I knew , for there was always work for a woman in our pioneer houses . The hired girl who went from place to place could find employment most of the time ; but the baby would be an incumbrance . It would be a thing that the eye of censure could not ignore , like the scarlet `` A '' on the breast of the girl in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's story . I could not foresee how the thing would work out , and lay awake pondering on it until after midnight , and I had hardly fallen asleep , it seemed to me , when the door was opened , and in came Magnus . He had finished his job and come back . `` You hare , Yake ? '' he said , in his quiet and unmoved way .