midnight
`` Now Allah be praised , he is father of mercies ! _ She _ warned me ! '' he croaked . `` She knows the smell of dawn at midnight ! She said , ` He cometh soon ! ' and none believed her , save only I . This very dawn said she , ` Thou , Ismail , ' she said , ` be asleep at the gate when he cometh and thine eyes shall be thrown to the city dogs ! '