midnight
The moonlight shone in through the great window over the altar . Here the priest stood , and placed Claude and Mimi before him . Then he went through the marriage service . It was a strange wedding there at midnight , in the moonlit chapel , with the forms of the spectators so faintly discerned , and the ghostly outline of priest , altar , and window before them as they knelt . But they were married ; and Claude once more , in a rapture of feeling , pressed his wife to his heart . They now left the chapel by another door in the rear . The priest led the way , together with the sentinel .