midnight
She was now enabled to say , that the stranger , whom she had formerly heard , was still in the castle , and to direct Ludovico to that part of it , in which he was confined . Emily , attended by Annette , continued at the casement , for some time , but all remained still ; they heard neither lute nor voice again , and Emily was now as much oppressed by anxious joy , as she lately was by a sense of her misfortunes . With hasty steps she paced the room , now half calling on Valancourt 's name , then suddenly stopping , and now going to the casement and listening , where , however , she heard nothing but the solemn waving of the woods . Sometimes her impatience to speak to Ludovico prompted her to send Annette to call him ; but a sense of the impropriety of this at midnight restrained her . Annette , meanwhile , as impatient as her mistress , went as often to the casement to listen , and returned almost as much disappointed . She , at length , mentioned Signor Verezzi , and her fear , lest he should enter the chamber by the staircase , door . `` But the night is now almost past , Mademoiselle , '' said she , recollecting herself ; `` there is the morning light , beginning to peep over those mountains yonder in the east . ''