midday
`` When will it be , and what will take place ? '' `` Day will become night , '' said Pentuer . `` This will last as much time , perhaps , as is needed in walking five hundred yards . It will begin at midday , so Menes told me . '' `` Menes , '' repeated the pharaoh , `` I know that name . '' `` He wrote thee a letter concerning it , holiness . But let the army know . ''