about midnight
I think no one had been in the place since the joiners left it , for the shavings yet lay in the corner , among all that the birds and the wild bees had brought to it since . My mother stayed beside me while Maisie went to bring me a hot drink , for the shuddering grew upon me , and I began to have fierce pains in my back and legs . My mother told me how that the main guard of the soldiers had been a week away over in the direction of Minnyhive , all but a sergeant 's file that were left to keep the castle . To-day all these men , except the sentry , were down drinking at the change-house in the clachan , and not till about midnight would they come roaring home . She also told me -LRB- which I much yearned to know -RRB- , that the Duchrae had at last been turned out , and that old Anton had betaken himself to the hills . Maisie , his daughter , had come to the neighbourhood with Margaret Wilson of Glen Vernock , the bright little lass from the Shireside whom I had first seen during my sojourn in Balmaghie . Margaret Wilson had friends over at the farm of Bogue on the Garpelside .