midnight
The girl succeeded in hoodwinking the men servants by dressing herself up in a mantle of her mistress 's , pretending she would have supper out in the park as the night was so fine and warm , so that by the time the fraud was discovered and the alarm given , Henrietta had had a start of several hours and although the men , fearful of the anger of their master when he should return and find his wife flown , searched in every direction with lighted torches they were unable to discover a trace of the missing lady . Terror lends strength to the most feeble . Ordinarily Henrietta was so weak that it was as much as she could do to promenade through the park . But to-day after a two hours ' run over stones and through briars and bushes , at midnight , she still did not feel weary . From the top of a hill she looked back . She could still see the tower of the castle of Hidvár in the valley , but it looked blue through the mist in the distance and then she hastened down into the valley whose steep overhanging sides hid her even from the moonlight . The night was noiseless , the forest dark .