One in the morning
He returned her passion just sufficiently to increase it ; and when He had worked it up to the desired pitch , He fixed the price of his love at his Brother 's murder . The Wretch consented to this horrible agreement . A night was pitched upon for perpetrating the deed . Otto , who resided on a small Estate a few miles distant from the Castle , promised that at One in the morning He would be waiting for her at Lindenberg Hole ; that He would bring with him a party of chosen Friends , by whose aid He doubted not being able to make himself Master of the Castle ; and that his next step should be the uniting her hand to his . It was this last promise , which overruled every scruple of Beatrice , since in spite of his affection for her , the Baron had declared positively that He never would make her his Wife . ` The fatal night arrived . The Baron slept in the arms of his perfidious Mistress , when the Castle-Bell struck ` One . '