midnight
But there is time yet ; let us talk a while , they will scarcely begin their torments before the dawn , and ere dawn we shall be far . ' So we talked as well as my sufferings would allow . We talked of how we first had met , of how Otomie had been vowed to me as the wife of Tezcat , Soul of the World , of that day when we had lain side by side upon the stone of sacrifice , of our true marriage thereafter , of the siege of Tenoctitlan and the death of our first-born . Thus we talked till midnight was two hours gone . Then there came a silence . ` Husband , ' said Otomie at last in a hushed and solemn voice , ` you are worn with suffering , and I am weary . It is time to do that which must be done .