midnight
That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only , her head being still enveloped . She threw away the stick , took the glass in her hand , the telescope under her arm , and moved on . Along the ridge ran a faint foot-track , which the lady followed . Those who knew it well called it a path ; and , while a mere visitor would have passed it unnoticed even by day , the regular haunters of the heath were at no loss for it at midnight . The whole secret of following these incipient paths , when there was not light enough in the atmosphere to show a turnpike-road , lay in the development of the sense of touch in the feet , which comes with years of night-rambling in little-trodden spots . To a walker practised in such places a difference between impact on maiden herbage , and on the crippled stalks of a slight footway , is perceptible through the thickest boot or shoe . The solitary figure who walked this beat took no notice of the windy tune still played on the dead heath-bells .