nearly midnight
Amaryllis closed her lips firmly . Philadelphus read in the look that he could not escape without Laodice . Without further speech , he went to the vestibule , took his cloak and kerchief from the porter and went out into the city . It was nearly midnight when he passed into the streets . The tumult of assault on the walls had ceased . The long lines of beacon-fires on the walls showed only a few men in arms posted there . Without there came no sound of activity in the camp of the Roman .