midnight
`` Yet I have heard , Hokosa , that you have made use of women in many a strange work . Say now , what were you doing upon a night a while ago with that fair witch-wife if yours yonder in the burying-place of kings , where it is not lawful that you should set your foot ? Nay , deny it not . You were seen to enter the valley after midnight and to return thence at the dawn , and it was seen also that as she came homewards your wife walked as one who is drunken , and she , whom it is not easy to frighten , wore a face of fear . Man , I do not trust you , and were I wise I should hunt you hence , or keep you so close that you could scarcely move without my knowledge . `` Why should I trust you ? '' Nodwengo went on vehemently .