midnight
Rinaldo asked for the name of her lover . She answered with it . Angelo said , `` It will be better for you to die : but if you can not do so easy a thing as that , prepare widow 's garments . '' They forced her to write three words to Count Paul , calling him to her window at midnight . Rinaldo fetched a priest : Angelo laid out two swords . An hour before the midnight , Clelia 's old nurse raised the house with her cries . Clelia was stretched dead in her chamber .