midnight
And she tossed about on the bed . The doctors said that it was puerperal fever , and that it was ninety-nine chances in a hundred it would end in death . The whole day long there was fever , delirium , and unconsciousness . At midnight the patient lay without consciousness , and almost without pulse . The end was expected every minute . Vronsky had gone home , but in the morning he came to inquire , and Alexey Alexandrovitch meeting him in the hall , said : `` Better stay , she might ask for you , '' and himself led him to his wife 's boudoir . Towards morning , there was a return again of excitement , rapid thought and talk , and again it ended in unconsciousness .