midnight
That night , without my having given any orders on the subject , Mistress Anne made up my bed in a nice cheerful room facing the street . I have never said another word to her about what I heard and saw , far less to Falter . Do me the favour , you two , to say nothing about it either , or there will only be a lot of annoying tittle-tattle , and endless troublesome questions , and , very likely , all the bother of a formal investigation by the Psychological Society . Even in the room where I sleep now , I feel pretty certain I can hear the footsteps and the sobs every night at midnight . However , I mean to put up with it the best way I can for a short time , and then try to get rid of the house as quietly as possible , and look out for another . ' `` When Alexander had finished , there was a short silence . Then Marzell said : '' ` All this about your old aunt haunting the house is strange and uncanny enough .