midnight
When she came down , Margaret begged her to loose Dragon and bring him along . Now Dragon was a great mastiff , who had guarded Margaret Van Eyck and Reicht , two lone women , for some years , and was devotedly attached to the latter . Margaret and Reicht went out , with Dragon walking majestically behind them . They came back long after midnight , and retired to rest . Catherine never knew . Margaret read her friends : she saw the sturdy , faithful Frisian could hold her tongue , and Catherine could not . Yet I am not sure she would have trusted even Reicht had her nerve equalled her spirit ; but with all her daring and resolution , she was a tender , timid woman , a little afraid of the dark , very afraid of being alone in it , and desperately afraid of wolves .