midnight
Why not tonight ? '' Caroline was all nervous impatience . `` I will wait her coming in the vaulted chamber ; I will watch for her as one in the valley of death watches for the angel of deliverance . Bid her come , and at midnight to-morrow she shall find the door of the secret chamber open to admit her . '' The eagerness of the ill-fated girl to see La Corriveau outran every calculation of Mère Malheur . It was in vain and useless for her to speak further on the subject ; Caroline would say no more . Her thoughts ran violently in the direction suggested by the artful letter .