midnight
Witness our hand , together with our thankful recollections of your good services to our late Royal Father as well as ourselves , C. R. '' Long and steadily did Sir Henry gaze on the letter , so that it might almost seem as if he were getting it by heart . He then placed it carefully in his pocket-book , and asked Alice the account of her adventures the preceding night . They were briefly told . Their midnight walk through the Chase had been speedily and safely accomplished . Nor had the King once made the slightest relapse into the naughty Louis Kerneguy . When she had seen Charles and his attendant set off , she had taken some repose in the cottage where they parted . With the morning came news that Woodstock was occupied by soldiers , so that return thither might have led to danger , suspicion , and enquiry .