midnight
`` What ? Tell me . '' At last she was interested and amused . There was no reason why I should not tell her of my midnight adventure . We never repeated one another 's little confidences . She listened , with many comments and exclamations , to the story of the unseen lady , the legend of the fair witch , the dagger that was a paper-knife by day and the severed tresses . She did not hear of the singular nightmare or hallucination that had been my second visitor .