midday
`` Wilt thou tell me thereof ? '' said Christopher . `` Mayhappen , '' said Simon , `` if to-morrow comes and goes for both of us twain . '' So they rode their ways through the wood , and baited at midday with what Simon bare in his saddle-bags , and then went on till night fell on them ; then asked Simon how long they were from the Long Pools , and Christopher told him that they were yet short of them some fifteen miles , and those long ones , because of the marish grounds . So they tethered their horses there and ate their supper ; and lay down to sleep in the house of the woods , by a fire-side which they lighted . But in the midnight Christopher , who was exceeding fine-eared , had an inkling of someone moving afoot anigh him , and he awoke therewith , and sprang up , his drawn short-sword in his hand , and found himself face to face with Simon , and he also with his sword drawn . Simon sprang aback , but held up his sword-point , and Christopher , not yet fully awake , cried out : `` What wouldst thou ?