midnight
`` Now ? At midnight ? '' asked the pharaoh . `` Her exact words were that at midnight Thou wouldst wake , holiness . '' The pharaoh meditated , then answered the adjutant that ha would wait for the queen in the golden hall . He thought that there no one could overhear them . Ramses threw a mantle over his shoulders , put on sandals unfastened and commanded to light the golden hall brightly .