midnight
`` Deliver thee ? '' `` Yes , my child . I am under a curse , because on the very day of the great sacrifice on the Cross , on a Friday , I slew a man who had insulted me . He died unhouselled , unanointed , unannealed , and his ghost ever haunts my midnight hour . '' `` Even here , in this holy , consecrated place ? '' `` Even in the very church itself . '' `` Can any one else see it ? ''