noon
I murmured once again , and wondered what the future would bring . `` He looks his angel in the face Without a blush : nor heeds disgrace , Whom naught disgraceful done Disgraces . Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known . '' It was noon . The probe to `` Tannhauser '' was over , and we , the members of the kapelle , turned out , and stood in a knot around the orchestra entrance to the Elberthal Theater . It was a raw October noontide . The last traces of the by-gone summer were being swept away by equinoctial gales , which whirled the remaining yellowing leaves from the trees , and strewed with them the walks of the deserted Hofgarten ; a stormy gray sky promised rain at the earliest opportunity ; our Rhine went gliding by like a stream of ruffled lead .