midnight
When he arrived there , Labanya with great pomp and ceremony presented him with a robe of honour , and with her own hand put a mark of red sandal paste on the middle of his forehead . Each of the other sisters threw round his neck a garland of flowers woven by herself . Decked in a pink Sari and dazzling jewels , his wife Arunlekha was waiting in a side room , her face lit up with smiles and blushes . Her sisters rushed to her , and , placing another garland in her hand , insisted that she also should come , and do her part in the ceremony , but she would not listen to it ; and that principal garland , cherishing a desire for Nabendu 's neck , waited patiently for the still secrecy of midnight . The sisters said to Nabendu : `` To-day we crown thee King . Such honour will not be done to any body else in Hindoostan . '' Whether Nabendu derived any consolation from this , he alone can tell ; but we greatly doubt it .