midnight
Be on your guard , Will . Do not allow Sir George to discover that you have any feeling in this matter . Above all , lead him from the possibility of learning that Thomas is Sir John Manners . I will contrive to admit the Rutland men at midnight . '' I hastened with Dawson back to the Hall , where we found the situation as I had left it . John 's head was lying on Dorothy 's lap , and she was trying to dress his wound with pieces of linen torn from her clothing . Sir George was pacing to and fro across the room , breaking forth at times in curses against Dorothy because of her relations with a servant .