About
five o'clock
I was so much frightened , that my hair stood on end , and my night - clothes fell off . I pulled and pinched your father , who never awoke during the disorder I was in , but at last was much surprised to see me in this fright , and more so when I related the story and showed him the window opened . Neither of us slept any more that night ; but he entertained me by telling me how much more these apparitions were common in this country than in England ; and we concluded the cause to be the great superstition of the Irish , and the want of that knowing faith which should defend them from the power of the devil , which he exercises among them very much . About five o'clock the lady of the house came to see us , saying , she had not been in bed all night , because a cousin O'Brien of hers , whose ancestors had owned that house , had desired her to stay with him in his chamber , and that he died at two o'clock ; and she said , I wish you to have had no disturbance , for 't is the custom of the place , that when any of the family are dying , the shape of a woman appears every night in the window until they be dead . This woman was many ages ago got with child by the owner of this place , who murdered her in his garden , and flung her into the river under the window ; but truly I thought not of it when I lodged you here , it being the best room in the house ! We made little reply to her speech , but disposed ourselves to be gone suddenly . '' -RSB- As Gillian entered with two of the maidens of her mistress 's household , they removed the Lady Eveline , by Rose 's directions , into a chamber at some distance which the latter had occupied , and placed her in one of their beds , where Rose , dismissing the others -LRB- Gillian excepted -RRB- to seek repose where they could find it , continued to watch her mistress .