midnight
Or , rather , what was it that she saw ? -- for this seemed to be a picture in music . She saw a small chapel far away up in the mountains , the trembling red rays in the windows looking strange above the snow . She heard the monks at their midnight chanting -- low , and sad , and distant . And then it seemed , as she listened , as if the stars overhead were being blurred out , and a murmuring wind came down the gorge , and the air grew cold . The darkness deepened ; the wind rose and moaned through the pine forests ; then an angry gust swept along , so that the intoning of the monks was lost altogether . There was a rumble of distant thunder -- overhead , among the unseen peaks .