midnight
`` Won , Sir Knight -- cleverly won ! '' was her first sentence to Heinz . Then , turning to Els , she asked with no less animation : `` And you , my fair maid and very strict housemate , who has won the wager now ? Do you still believe it is an inconceivable thought that the modest daughter of a decorous Nuremberg race , entitled to enter the lists of a tourney , would grant a young knight a midnight meeting ? '' And addressing her companions , she continued , in an explanatory yet still playful tone : `` She was ready to wager the beautiful brown locks which she now hides modestly under a kerchief , and even her betrothed lover 's ring . It should be mine if I succeeded in leading her to commit such an abominable deed . But I was content , if I won the wager , with a smaller forfeit ; yet now that I have gained it , Jungfrau Ortlieb , you must pay ! ''