midnight
Then a whisper , that seemed to tremble beneath its freight of love , whispered , `` Harry ! Harry ! '' and she looked up , and saw the substance of the shadow , her lover , standing upon the little wooden bridge ! Though Folly be near kin to Vice , she does not acknowledge the relationship , and , to do Harry Trevethick justice , she would never have made a midnight assignation with Richard in the Fairies ' Bower . She was more alarmed and shocked at the too literal fulfillment of her wish than pleased to see him there . She shed tears for very shame . Whatever reserve she had hitherto maintained , with respect to her affection for him , had now , she perceived , been swept away by her own act .