midnight
Shines she not that the thief may be shaken out of the earth ? ' ` I am not thief enough to steal in the dark , mother . How shall I tell without her help where I am or whither I go ? ' ` She will be half way to the top of her hill by midnight . ' ` An ' thou speak by the card , then is it time that Marquis and I were going . ' ` Here , take thee some fern-seed in thy pouch , that thou may walk invisible , ' said the old woman . ` If thee chance to be an hungred , then eat thereof , ' she added , as she transferred something from her pocket to his .