midnight
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare , and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children ; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind , and I can no longer recall them . My memories of the summer time are so similar that they break with the splendor of the sun into the dark places and things of my mind . And always the great heat , the deep blue skies , the sparkling sand of the beach and the flood of light upon the white lime walls of the cottages of the little villages upon the `` Island '' induced in me a melancholy and sleepiness which I afterwards experienced with even greater intensity in the land of the Turk . `` And at midnight there was a cry made : Behold , the Bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him ... . And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage ; and the door was shut . Afterward came also the other virgins , saying , Lord , Lord , open to us . `` But he answered and said , Verily , I say unto you , I know you not .