about midnight
She would gladly have spent it in bed , as Eleanor had done , but as the doctor who had come to see her had pronounced her little the worse for her night in the wood shed , there had been no excuse for her to stay in bed , and she had been obliged , about eleven o'clock , to get up to see her grandfather first , then Mrs. Murray , and later in the morning Mrs. Danvers , and Hilary , who had been brought out to Wrexley to apologise for her outrageous behaviour of the day before . Mrs. Danvers had been naturally anxious to know where Margaret had passed the night while search had been so vainly made for her , and she could scarcely believe that mere chance had indeed led Margaret across the downs to Wrexley woods in the darkness . And yet such , as Geoffrey had surmised , had been the case . Trying to reach Windy Gap Margaret had passed close by it in the fog and had wandered on and on until , somewhere about midnight , she had found herself at the entrance to a small hut in the wood , and , thankful beyond words to be in shelter of some sort , she had crept into it and , making herself as comfortable as she could on some dry faggots of sticks , had fallen sound asleep . And she had been still sleeping when Sir Richard , who usually took a stroll before breakfast every morning , had come suddenly upon her . But when Margaret , who said that she freely forgave Hilary -- as , indeed , she did -- for all her unkindness and foolish suspicions about her , would have apologised in her turn for the deception she had practised upon her , that good-natured lady checked her at once . `` My dear , '' she said , `` I ca n't see that you did me any harm .