midnight
`` Alas ! but I can not show my face in the company of men , '' said Roderic . `` I am in hiding as an outlaw , and I am alone and ill-defended . '' `` Be , then , upon the headland of Garroch at the midnight hour , '' said Elspeth . `` Wait there , my lord , and I will send to you either Aasta herself or else a messenger who will tell you all you may wish to know . '' `` Right so , '' said Roderic ; `` at midnight on the Garroch Head . '' `` And now I beg you , Earl Roderic , go hence from this cave .