midnight
`` Will you meet me here again soon ? '' I said . `` As soon as you wish , '' she answered . `` Then to-morrow , at midnight ? '' `` Yes . '' And we parted at the door of the haunted chamber . I watched the flickering with which her whiteness just set the darkness in motion , and nothing more , seeming to see it long after I knew she must have turned aside and descended the steps leading towards her own room .