Midnight
In looking round , she had met Hubert face to face . She knew that that face was her own ; and , with a horror stamped on every feature that no words can depict , she fell back , with a terrible scream and was dead ! Sir Norman was so shocked by the suddenness of the last catastrophe , that , for some time , he could not realize that she had actually expired , until he bent over her , and placed his ear to her lips . No breath was there ; no pulse stirred in that fierce heart -- the Midnight Queen was indeed dead ! `` Oh , this is fearful ! '' exclaimed Sir Norman , pale and horrified . `` The sight of Hubert , and his wonderful resemblance to her , has completed what her wound and this excitement began .