midnight
But I was listless , worn out with emotion on my own behalf and sympathy for others , and had no heart to leave my comfortless lair beneath the rock . I must have fallen asleep , and had a dream , all the circumstances of which utterly vanished at the moment when they converged to some tragical catastrophe , and thus grew too powerful for the thin sphere of slumber that enveloped them . Starting from the ground , I found the risen moon shining upon the rugged face of the rock , and myself all in a tremble . It could not have been far from midnight when I came beneath Hollingsworth 's window , and , finding it open , flung in a tuft of grass with earth at the roots , and heard it fall upon the floor . He was either awake or sleeping very lightly ; for scarcely a moment had gone by before he looked out and discerned me standing in the moonlight . `` Is it you , Coverdale ? '' he asked .