midnight
and am I all forgotten ? And tears rolled from her great blue eyes , and fell like suppliants at her feet . And Aja put up his left hand , and tugged at his hair in the extremity of his amazement . And he said : O thou strange offended lady , I am utterly bewildered , and resemble one that has lost his way at midnight in a wood . And thy anger and thy grief are alike altogether incomprehensible . How can I possibly have forgotten one , whom as I just now told thee , I never saw in my life before ? Then she said : Nay , not in this life , but the last .