midnight
We had been quite still , resting while this talk was going on , but we could hear the hawks chattering from the rocks , we were so close now . And my heart sunk within me , there was no reason why this should not be true ; there was no reason why anything should not be true . `` This , Sir Florian , '' said the knight again , `` how would you feel inclined to fight if you thought that everything about you was mere glamour ; this earth here , the rocks , the sun , the sky ? I do not know where I am for certain , I do not know that it is not midnight instead of undem : I do not know if I have been fighting men or only simulacra but I think , we all think , that we have been led into some devil 's trap or other , and - and may God forgive me my sins ! I wish I had never been born . '' There now ! he was weeping - they all wept - how strange it was to see those rough , bearded men blubbering there , and snivelling till the tears ran over their armour and mingled with the blood , so that it dropped down to the earth in a dim , dull , red rain .