midnight
Nay , you are not the one I took you for . Sir , it is mean to overlisten ; mean , very mean ; nay , it is base , unmanly , to listen to a maid , when she commits her vagaries to the moon . '' `` Scourge me , for I deserve it , with your tongue ; '' rejoined the stranger -- `` but , lady , you were not alone , though I were absent ; no ; you can not be alone . Such excellence must draw hither elves and midnight troops of fairies ; by day , by night , each moment must array around you the good wishes of the world . No , not alone ; the very sky is filled with watchers and the ground covered with invisible feet , that have come here to do you homage ; then why not I found here to pay you mine ? Are you still angry ? '' `` You have offended me , '' she answered ; -- `` and yet perhaps I am too severe with you .