midnight
`` Hold thy foolish tongue , Pharnim , -- '' he said , -- `` The King doth but show a fitting example to his people , . . there is a time to pray , and a time to feast , and our Zephoranim can do both as becomes a man . But of his midnight meditations I have heard naught , . . since when hath he deserted his Court of Love for the colder chambers of the Sacred Temple ? '' `` Ask Lysia ! ''