midnight
`` Not a man of us is going to leave Marut alive . But you ladies -- '' `` Well , what about us ` ladies ' ? '' in a tone as though the description had been an insult . `` I have just told you -- Nehal Singh gives you till midnight to get away . '' Mrs. Carmichael snapped her lips together in a straight , uncompromising line . `` Very much obliged to His Highness , I 'm sure , but I stay with the regiment , '' she said . Nicholson could not repress a smile at this description of her husband , but there was something more than amusement in his brightening eyes .