midday
said Howel . `` We must go and see . '' So we came to the menhir 's foot , and though the bog came almost to it there was yet a little mound of turf on which it stood , and I went to that to see if thence I could peer deeper into the dark water , but I could not . `` Come , '' Howel said , `` it is midday , and I for one would not be on these hills on Midsummer Eve . Call me heathenish if you like , but this is an unlucky night whereon to walk in the haunts of the good folk . '' I had forgotten that so it was , and even now I only smiled at the prince , for my mind was full of other things as I followed him toward the glen whence the stream came . And now I was sure that here was growing more clearly a trace as of a seldom trodden path toward its mouth .