midnight
Even should he die too -- which I prayed God might not be yet ! -- there was His Royal Highness to follow ; and I had served him , all things considered , pretty near as well as his brother . So , then , I lay in thought , hearing a fountain play somewhere without my windows , and the rustle of the wind in the limes that stood along the Privy Garden . I heard midnight strike from the Clock-Tower at the further end of the palace , before I slept ; and presently after the cry of the watchman that `` all was well , and a fair night . '' It was not until the third day after my coming to town that I had audience of the Duke -- in the evening after supper , having bidden good-bye that morning , with a very heavy heart , to my cousins , at Aldgate , whither I had escorted them . I had promised Dolly I would come when I could ; but God knew when that would be ! Even by then , I think , I had become accustomed to my new surroundings .