midnight
The two women caught each other by the hand and rushed to the window . They threw it open ; the tempest began again ; a fresh gust drove them back ; the waters roared : the wind howled ; they heard the voice no more . They closed the window and put up the shutters . It was long past midnight when they dared to go to bed . One of them lay awake the whole night long . In the roaring tempest she had seen an omen of the wrath of Heaven about to fall once more upon her mistress . She was wrong .