midnight
I 'm the woman can do it . Faith and I 'll sort them , be they who it may , so as they 'll no be in too great a hurry to come ridin ' to this house again , the black-hearted villains . But I 'll learn them manners or I 'm done wi ' them else my name 's no Hannah Macaulay . '' Neal , as he slipped silently from the room , was aware that Hannah meditated a vigorous attack upon her midnight visitors . She took the long kitchen poker in her hand , shook it with a grim smile , and thrust the end of it into the heart of the fire . There was a knock at the door . Hannah , standing in a corner of the room , and hidden from any one looking in through the window , neither spoke nor stirred .