about midnight
Ann sat on the doorstep watching the lights in the sky shine out one by one . Last night had been the only night which had ever possessed terrors for her , and now that she believed her father to be still alive she thought no longer with any horror of his apparition . She wondered where he was wandering , but her heart hardened towards him . She rested and dozed by turns upon the doorstep until about midnight . Then in the darkness she heard a voice from the bracken couch that assured her that Bart 's mind had come back to him again . `` Who is there ? '' he asked .