midnight
we make a wretched breakfast , and all the company say we look queer . After breakfast , we go over the house with our host , and then we take him to the portrait of the cavalier in green , and then it all comes out . He was false to a young housekeeper once attached to that family , and famous for her beauty , who drowned herself in a pond , and whose body was discovered , after a long time , because the stags refused to drink of the water . Since which , it has been whispered that she traverses the house at midnight -LRB- but goes especially to that room where the cavalier in green was wont to sleep -RRB- , trying the old locks with the rusty keys . Well ! we tell our host of what we have seen , and a shade comes over his features , and he begs it may be hushed up ; and so it is . But , it 's all true ; and we said so , before we died -LRB- we are dead now -RRB- to many responsible people .