midnight
`` I do not know . I suppose it must have been when I was the Cup of the holy Tanofir . At least it is familiar to me . Already I weary of it , for who can care for a land or a city where they think white people hideous and scarcely allow a wife to go near her husband , save between midnight and dawn when they cease from their horrible music ? '' `` It will be your part to change these customs , Karema . '' `` Yes , '' she exclaimed , `` certainly that will be my part , '' after which I went back to my litter . Now at the gates of the City of the Grasshopper we were royally received .