Midnight
I hated mesmerism and its vulgar impertinences ; but here was a power I possessed , as far as I knew , only over one , and that one allied to me by a reciprocal influence , as well as long-tried affection . -- Did not love give me the right to employ this power ? My cognitions concluded in the resolve to use the means in my hands for the rescue of Lady Alice . Midnight found me in the alley of the kitchen-garden . The door of the little court opened easily . Nor had I withdrawn its bolts without knowing that I could manage to open the window of my old room from the outside . I stood in the dark , a stranger and housebreaker , where so often I had sat waiting the visits of my angel .