midnight
`` Vides ut alta stet nive candidum , Soracte . '' `` As we are speaking , life the envious flits away . Enjoy the present day , nor trust the morrow ! '' `` And the Pope is going to hold a midnight mass -- he who has no faith in it himself . '' `` But he must put a good face on it , and go through with it . '' `` I know one woman who will not go to mass to-day . '' `` That is the beautiful Stephania , the widow of Crescentius . ''