About midnight
It was , indeed , a sort of pleasure , the prospect of which enabled him to bear the toil of living through the day , though his patience was almost quite exhausted before the hour of assignation arrived . When the doctor appeared with the coach , he leaped into it with great eagerness , after he had , with much difficulty , prevailed with Don Diego to stay at home , on account of his health , which was not yet perfectly established . The Castilian , however , would not comply with his request , until he had obtained the Count 's promise , that he should be permitted to accompany him next night , and take that duty alternately with the physician . About midnight , they reached the place , where they found the sexton in waiting , according to the orders he had received . The door was opened , the mourner conducted to the tomb , and left , as before , to the gloom of his own meditations . Again he laid himself on the cold ground ; again he renewed his lamentable strain ; his imagination began to be heated into an ecstasy of enthusiasm , during which he again fervently invoked the spirit of his deceased Monimia . In the midst of these invocations , his ear was suddenly invaded with the sound of some few solemn notes issuing from the organ , which seemed to feel the impulse of an invisible hand .