midnight
`` I think that I could not sleep with yonder chief so near me , '' I said frankly . Dalfin laughed , though Bertric did not ; but without more ado , they took the sail from the nearest boat and rolled themselves under it on the after deck . They were asleep in a moment , knowing that I would call them with the first sign of wind , if it came before my watch was ended . It wanted about an hour to midnight at this time , and the red glow of the sun in the sky was flooding the north . Now for a long while I paced the deck , thinking of all that had happened in these few days . Heavy things they were , but the heaviest were those of the summer morning when Heidrek came , so that beside those terrors what else had passed was as nothing . And I passed through them all again , as it were , and hardened myself to bear them .