midnight
Linnet was asleep upon her mother 's bed . `` My baby , my poor baby ! '' cried her mother , falling on her knees beside the bed , `` must you wake up to this ? '' She awoke at midnight ; but her mother lay quiet beside her , and she did not arouse her . In the early light she discerned something in her mother 's face , and begged to know what she had to tell . Taking her into her arms she told her all she knew . It was in the newspaper .