midnight
The danger of discovery was no greater now than it had been all along , and the good to be won by biding their time might be inestimable . The danger was there , but they would face it , and wait , -- say until the second week in September . Landless acquiesced , scarcely convinced , but willing to believe that the other knew whereof he spoke , and conscious , too , that his own impatience of the yoke which galled his spirit almost past endurance might incline him to a reckless and disastrous haste . It was past midnight when he rose to leave the hut on the marsh . Godwyn took up his stick . `` I will walk with you to the banks of the creek , '' he said . '' 'T is a feverish night , and I have an aching head .