midnight
And I said : Why didst thou send no answer to my message , and why didst thou summon me at sunset , and yet go away , leaving me nothing but the scorn of thy servants at thy gate ? And she looked at me in blank amazement , and she said : What dost thou mean ? I never got any message , and if any summons came to thee , it was not sent by me . For I have not heard anything of thee at all , since I left thee at midnight in my boat . And as she spoke , there came a mist before my eyes , and all the blood in my body rushed suddenly into my heart , as if to burst it , and then as suddenly left it , so that I almost swooned . And all at once , I exclaimed with a shout : Chaturiká ! Ah !