midnight
This situation is melodramatic rather than romantic , as the word is used technically in application to eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature . There is no little in Fathom , however , which is genuinely romantic in the latter sense . Such is the imprisonment of the Countess in the castle-tower , whence she waves her handkerchief to the young Count , her son and would-be rescuer . And especially so is the scene in the church , when Renaldo -LRB- the very name is romantic -RRB- visits at midnight the supposed grave of his lady-love . While he was waiting for the sexton to open the door , his `` soul . . .