midnight
`` Did he ask you to ? -- Really , really , he ought n't to . Really , my child , I ca n't have you meeting Sir Basil in the woods at midnight . '' `` You ca n't have me meeting him in the woods at midnight ? '' Imogen repeated , an ominous cadence , holding her head high and taking long breaths . `` You say that , dare say it , when you well know that I can meet him nowhere else and in no other way . It was _ I _ who asked him to meet me here and it is here , confronted with you , if you so choose ; it is here , before you and under God 's stars , that I shall know the truth from him .