“When will he come?” I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered – as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened; and neither day nor aid arrived…The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of gray light edging the window-curtains; dawn was then approaching…in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock warned me my watch was relieved. It could not have lasted more than two hours; many a week has seemed shorter. Mr. Rochester entered.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 20. An anxious Jane tends to the bleeding Richard Mason while she waits for Rochester to return with the doctor. She is relieved when as dawn approaches Rochester finally arrives with a surgeon to dress Mason’s wounds.