midnight
His pale ascetic countenance looked more in place in a monkish cloister than on a knightly tilting ground , and he glanced this way and that with the swift and furtive suspicion of one who , while setting one trap , fears to be taken in another . But the lady who rode on a white palfrey between these two took all men 's regard , even in the presence of a marshal of France and a herald extraordinary of the King of Scots . The Earl Douglas , having let his eyes once rest upon her , could not again remove them , being , as it were , fixed by the very greatness of the wonder which he saw . It was the lady of the pavilion underneath the pines , the lady of the evening light and of the midnight storm . She was no longer clothed in simple white , but arrayed like a king 's daughter . On her head was a high-peaked coiffure , from which there flowed down a graceful cloud of finest lace . This , even as the Earl looked at her , she caught at with a bewitching gesture , and brought down over her shoulder with her gloved hand .