midnight
He wakened up from the listless and supine life which he had been leading ; was always riding to and fro in consultation with this friend or that of the King 's ; the page of course knowing little of his doings , but remarking only his greater cheerfulness and altered demeanor . Father Holt came to the Hall constantly , but officiated no longer openly as chaplain ; he was always fetching and carrying : strangers , military and ecclesiastic -LRB- Harry knew the latter , though they came in all sorts of disguises -RRB- , were continually arriving and departing . My lord made long absences and sudden reappearances , using sometimes the means of exit which Father Holt had employed , though how often the little window in the Chaplain 's room let in or let out my lord and his friends , Harry could not tell . He stoutly kept his promise to the Father of not prying , and if at midnight from his little room he heard noises of persons stirring in the next chamber , he turned round to the wall , and hid his curiosity under his pillow until it fell asleep . Of course he could not help remarking that the priest 's journeys were constant , and understanding by a hundred signs that some active though secret business employed him : what this was may pretty well be guessed by what soon happened to my lord . No garrison or watch was put into Castlewood when my lord came back , but a Guard was in the village ; and one or other of them was always on the Green keeping a look-out on our great gate , and those who went out and in . Lockwood said that at night especially every person who came in or went out was watched by the outlying sentries .