midnight
`` And what made him so blind as to be for a proverb unto you ? '' `` Just some little drops of water , Sahib , nothing more , '' replied the big man with a smile that lifted the curling moustache and showed the dazzling perfect teeth . It was bitter , bitter cold -- cold as it only can be in hot countries -LRB- I have never felt the cold in Russia as I have in India -RRB- and the khaki flannel shirt , khaki tunic , shorts and putties that had seemed so hot in the cruel heat of the day as we made our painful way across the valley , seemed miserably inadequate at night , on the windy hill-top . Moreover I was in the cold stage of a go of fever , and to have escaped sunstroke in the natural oven of that awful valley at mid-day seemed but the prelude to being frost-bitten on the mountain at midnight . Subedar-Major Mir Daoud Khan Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan appeared wholly unaffected by the 100 ° variation in temperature , but then he had a few odd stone of comfortable fat and was bred to such climatic trifles . He , moreover , knew not fever , and , unlike me , had not experienced dysentery , malaria , enteric and pneumonia fairly recently . `` And had the hand of your brother anything to do with the little drops of water that made Ibrahim the Weeper so blind ? ''