midnight
`` Ladies , I am indeed not a ghost , but I promise you that I shall be if I am not offered something to eat at once ! '' Tableau ! `` What are you doing here ? '' asked she with the candle , her midnight eyes drawing down her brows into a frown of displeasure . I bowed . `` To begin with , I find a gate unlocked , and being curious , I open it ; then I find a door unlatched , and I enter . Under these unusual circumstances I am forced to ask the same question of you : what are you doing here in this ruined castle ?