Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"A white night," Dick Forrest surmised for his guest's benefit, and
went into details additional to Bert's of her constitutional
inaptitude for normal sleep. "Do you know, we were married years
before I ever saw her sleep. I knew she did sleep, but I never saw
her. I've seen her go three days and nights without closing an eye and
keep sweet and cheerful all the time, and when she did sleep, it was
out of exhaustion. That was when the _All Away_ went ashore in
the Carolines and the whole population worked to get us off. It wasn't
the danger, for there wasn't any. It was the noise. Also, it was the
excitement. She was too busy living. And when it was almost all over,
I actually saw her asleep for the first time in my life."