About midnight
So he set out again , and John went with him as before . On their journey they stayed for a week with the King of Spain , and there the Prince fell in love with the King of Spain 's daughter , and married her , and brought her home at the end of a year , during which she , too , had brought him a son . `` The night after their return , when the Prince and his second wife slept , John kept watch outside the door . About midnight he heard the noise of a chain dragging , but very softly , and up the stairs came a lady in white with a child in her arms . John knew his former mistress at once , and all his memory came back to him , but she put a finger to her lips and went past him into the bed-chamber . She went to the bed , laid a hand on her husband 's pillow , and whispered : '' ` Wife and babe below the river , Twice will I come and then come never . ' `` Without another word she turned and went slowly past John and down the stairs . ''