midnight
My knowledge of the marquis 's second marriage I concealed . ` He usually attended me when night might best conceal his visits ; though these were irregular in their return . Lately , from what motive I can not guess , he has ceased his nocturnal visits , and comes only in the day . ` Once when midnight increased the darkness of my prison , and seemed to render silence even more awful , touched by the sacred horrors of the hour , I poured forth my distress in loud lamentation . Oh ! never can I forget what I felt , when I heard a distant voice answered to my moan ! A wild surprize , which was strangely mingled with hope , seized me , and in my first emotion I should have answered the call , had not a recollection crossed me , which destroyed at once every half-raised sensation of joy .