midnight
I stayed in the hall , and falling upon my knees , I wept aloud ; I called upon my beloved by name , I gave myself up completely and regardlessly to all the absurd folly of a love-sick lunatic , until at last the extravagant noise I made awoke my uncle . But his loud call , `` Cousin , I believe you have gone cranky , or else you 're having another tussle with a wolf . Be off to bed with you if you will be so very kind '' -- these words compelled me to enter his room , where I got into bed with the fixed resolve to dream only of Seraphina . It would be somewhere past midnight when I thought I heard distant voices , a running backwards and forwards , and an opening and banging of doors -- for I had not yet fallen asleep . I listened attentively ; I heard footsteps approaching the corridor ; the hall door was opened , and soon there came a knock at our door . `` Who is there ? '' I cried .