midnight
However , it has proved an advantage to us now , for it has enabled great numbers to escape who might otherwise have been followed and cut down . I was very fortunate . I had left my horse at a little farmhouse two miles in the rear of our camp , and in the fog had but small hope of finding it ; but soon after leaving the battlefield , I came upon a rustic hurrying in the same direction as myself , and upon questioning him it turned out that he was a hand on the very farm at which I had left the horse . He had , with two or three others , stolen out after midnight to see the battle , and was now making his way home again , having seen indeed but little , but having learned from fugitives that we had been defeated . He guided me to the farmhouse , which otherwise I should assuredly never have reached . His master was favourable to our party , and let the man take one of the cart horses , on which he rode as my guide until he had placed me upon the high road to St. Albans , and I was then able to gallop on at full speed . '' `` And Warwick and his brother Montague are both killed ? ''