About midnight
`` He Cools His Wrath in the Moonlight , Communing with Allah ! '' Now the desert at full moon is as light as Broadway , and the only shadows are those the camels cast , than which there is nothing more weird in the whole range of phantasmagoria . We looked like a string of glistening ghosts accompanied by goblins of a fourth dimension mocking us , and though you could n't see the details of men 's faces , looking back along the line you could see every movement and distinguish man from man . About midnight Ayisha made up her mind to enjoy the _ shibriyah , _ more , I suspect , for the sake of annoying the Sikh than because she really wanted it . So she ranged alongside , and chiefly because I was curious and chose to be amused , but partly because of my league with Narayan Singh to keep watch on her , I checked my protesting camel and let him drop back into place behind them . I knew Narayan Singh was awake , for I had seen the glow of his cigarette through the curtains ten minutes before ; but he pretended to be asleep , so that she had to get the camels flank to flank and put her hand inside the curtains to awake him . Then he did the obvious thing and seized her hand , and I heard his bass voice answering her shrill protests .