midnight
`` You ? No , you are my ally . Or , if you please , I am yours ; for neither of us can do anything without you . '' At midnight , when Lilla returned to the doorway of his bedroom , David was not asleep . She sat down on the edge of the bed . A beam of light from the corridor touched her slender figure wrapped in yellow silk , and her braided hair outlined , round her head , by a narrow golden halo . The rain had ceased , and the breeze from the window was laden with the odor of the saturated earth .