awake

"That is the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night," she said.

That was apparent from the Second’s opening notes, in which trembling violins and violas sound as if startled awake, ushering in cellos and basses who have begun moving the furniture.

“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’” he writes.

"I was losing consciousness. I forced myself to stay awake because I knew if I passed out, I would lose him forever."

Neither seemed like the right kind of logic for a person awake at this hour making muffins she didn’t need.