midnight
She never liked this interesting woman , who was not only too handsome for competition , but possessed an understanding that would not tolerate ignorance or presumption . Diana 's ill-natured impertinence having several times received deserved chastisement from that quarter , she was vexed to the soul when Pembroke closed his animated response with the question , `` Who is she ? '' Rather too bitterly for the design on his heart , Miss Dundas iterated his words , and then answered , `` Why , she is crazed . She lives in a place called Harrowby Abbey , at the top of that hill , '' continued she , pointing through the opposite window to a distant rising ground , on which the moon was shining brightly ; `` and I am told she frightens the cottagers out of their wits by her midnight strolls . '' Hardly knowing how to credit this wild account , Pembroke asked his informer if she were serious . `` Never more so . Her eyes are uncommonly wild . ''