midday
`` You deceive yourself , but you will be undeceived when next we meet . '' -- `` And when shall that be ? '' said Stanton , grasping his arm ; `` name your hour and your place . '' `` The hour shall be midday , '' answered the stranger , with a horrid and unintelligible smile ; `` and the place shall be the bare walls of a madhouse , where you shall rise rattling in your chains , and rustling from your straw , to greet me , -- yet still you shall have THE CURSE OF SANITY , and of memory . My voice shall ring in your ears till then , and the glance of these eyes shall be reflected from every object , animate or inanimate , till you behold them again . '' -- `` Is it under circumstances so horrible we are to meet again ? '' said Stanton , shrinking under the full-lighted blaze of those demon eyes .