midnight
`` Go , if you will , and take the consequences . My lips are sealed forever , and I have much to say -- much that it behoves you to know . '' `` Be brief , then . When you sought me out this morning , in my retreat with the gipsy gang at Davenham Wood , you bade me meet you in the porch of Rookwood Church at midnight . I was true to my appointment . '' `` And I will keep my promise , '' replied the sexton . `` Draw closer , that I may whisper in thine ear .