midnight
`` Such a ruddy glow as this , '' said Irene , `` forebodes great heat , storms , and perhaps heavy rain , so the gatekeeper says ; and he is always with the astrologers who observe the stars and the signs in the heavens from the towers near the temple-gates . He is poor little Philo 's father . I wanted to bring Klea with me , for she knows more about our parents than I do ; but he begged me not to call her away , for the child 's throat is almost closed up , and if it cries much the physician says it will choke , and yet it is never quiet but when it is lying in Klea 's arms . She is so good -- and she never thinks of herself ; she has been ever since midnight till now rocking that heavy child on her lap . '' `` We will talk with her presently , '' said the Corinthian . `` But to-day it was for your sake that I came ; you have such merry eyes , and your little mouth looks as if it were made for laughing , and not to sing lamentations . How can you bear being always in that shut up dungeon with all those solemn men in their black and white robes ? ''