midnight
She took her knitting out of the bird-cage and began to knit at full speed . `` Danny me man , it is a good thing for ye that the shaddah of suspicion is on yer sister Pearlie this day , for it gives her a good chance to turn yer heel . ` Sowin ' in the sunshine , sowin ' in the shaddah , ' only it 's knittin ' I am instead of sewin ' , but it 's all wan , I guess . I mind how Paul and Silas were singin ' in the prison at midnight . I know how they felt . ` Do what Ye like , Lord , ' they wur thinkin ' . ` If it 's in jail Ye want us to stay , we 're Yer men . ' ''