Midnight
Mrs. Hood summoned the help of her friends . Unresisting , with eyes still closed , silent , she was carried upstairs and laid in her bed . Her mother sat by her . Midnight came , and Hood did not return . Already Mrs. Hood had begun to suspect something mysterious in Emily 's anxiety ; her own fears now became active . She went to the front door and stood there with impatience , by turns angry and alarmed . Her husband had never been so late .