midnight
And this mantle , tell me if this is not my son 's mantle ? My slave found it on that same tree , in the branches . '' The queen sprang up and brought from a case a brown , hooded mantle . Tutmosis remembered that the pharaoh had returned after midnight without his mantle and even explained to him that he had lost it somewhere in the garden . He hesitated , meditated , but at last answered with decision , `` No , queen , that was not the pharaoh . That was Lykon , and this is a crime of the priests which I must report to his holiness straightway . '' `` But if that were Ramses ? ''