midnight
An hour before the midnight , Clelia 's old nurse raised the house with her cries . Clelia was stretched dead in her chamber . The brothers kissed her in turn , and sat , one at her head , one at her feet . At midnight her lover stood among them . He was gravely saluted , and bidden to look upon the dead body . Angelo said to him , `` Had she lived you should have wedded her hand . She is gone of her own free choice , and one of us follows her . ''