midnight
` I can help your master , ' he continued , ` and am willing ; but my honour , like his , is aspersed in the eyes of the multitude , and he must come to my aid , if I am to come to his . ' `` I prayed him to be more explicit , and offered to be the bearer of any communication to your Holiness . '' ` I will unfold myself to no one but the Pope himself , ' he replied , ` and the interview must take place when and where I please to appoint . Let him meet me this very midnight , and alone , in the fifth chamber of the Appartamento Borgia . ' '' ` The Appartamento Borgia ! ' I exclaimed in consternation . ` The saloons which the wicked Pope Alexander the Sixth nocturnally perambulates , mingling poisons that have long lost their potency for Cardinals who have long lost their lives ! ' ''