midnight
She sat down to write a letter . `` To his Lordship , Grazian Likovay . Honored Lord : If you would know whose lover Father Peter really is , keep watch to-night and when you hear the bells ring at midnight , -- those bells that you think are rung by spirits , since they have no cord -- then , instead of covering up your head in fear , arise and go with your servants into the ghost-haunted chapel ; there you shall learn which one of us has cause to go begging for his lost honor . What I have said , I have said -- to-night after midnight . If you take warning , well and good ; if not , also good . It matters not to me whether you accept it , or whether you do not . You will repent if you listen to me : you will repent still more if you do not .