midnight
Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow : I could have deemed that in some wild , lone scene , I and Jane were meeting . In spirit , I believe we must have met . You no doubt were , at that hour , in unconscious sleep , Jane : perhaps your soul wandered from its cell to comfort mine ; for those were your accents -- as certain as I live -- they were yours ! '' Reader , it was on Monday night -- near midnight -- that I too had received the mysterious summons : those were the very words by which I replied to it . I listened to Mr. Rochester 's narrative , but made no disclosure in return . The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed . If I told anything , my tale would be such as must necessarily make a profound impression on the mind of my hearer : and that mind , yet from its sufferings too prone to gloom , needed not the deeper shade of the supernatural .