about midnight
He clambered up beside the coachman and under the brilliance of the starry heaven , the five steeds , with merry tinkling of bells , rattled the carriage along the turfy road . The coachman told him they had come from Debreczen : they wished to reach Lankadomb in the morning , but on the way they would pass an inn , where the horses would receive feed , while her ladyship would have some cold lunch : and then they would proceed on their journey . Her ladyship always loved to travel by night , for then it was not so hot : besides she was not afraid of anything . It was about midnight when the carriage drew up at the inn mentioned . Lorand leaped down from the box , and hastened first into the inn , not wishing to meet the lady who was within the carriage . His heart beat loudly , when he caught a glimpse of that silver-harnessed horse in the inn-yard , saddled and bridled . The steed was not fastened up , but quite loose , and it gave a peculiar neigh as the coach arrived , at which there stepped out from a dark door the same man whom Lorand had met on the plain .