midnight
Your murderers are awake -- they are in this very house , and nothing but instant flight can save you from their hands . '' `` But from whom , Miss Munro , am I to fear all this ? What has given you this alarm , which , until you can give me some clue to this mystery , I must regard as unadvised and without foundation . I feel the kindness and interest of your solicitude -- deeply feel , and greatly respect it ; but , unless you can give me some reasonable ground for your fears , I must be stubborn in resisting a connection which would have me fly like a midnight felon , without having seen the face of my foe . '' `` Oh , heed not these false scruples . There is no shame in such a flight , and believe me , sir , I speak not unadvisedly . Nothing , but the most urgent and immediate danger would have prompted me , at this hour , to come here .