midnight
`` It 's quite romantic , '' declared Irene , `` like Ellen 's Isle in the _ Lady of the Lake _ . We ought to find a hunting-lodge among the trees , and an interesting outlaw living there . '' `` More likely to find a poacher ! '' laughed Ralph ; `` though there 'd be nothing for him to trap here , unless he kept a boat stowed away in the reeds , and took midnight excursions into the woods . '' `` I think it 's the kind of place for a hermit , '' said Monica . `` He could have had a little cell and told his beads without being disturbed by anybody , except an occasional knight-errant who would blow a horn from the opposite bank . I wonder if one ever lived here ? ''