noon
Tom edged into the opposite seat and shook hands with her , all in miserable , comfortless silence . Then he blurted out : `` If I 'd had any idea you were on this train , I 'd have walked . '' Ardea laughed , and for all his misery he could not help remarking how much sweeter the low voice was growing , and how much clearer the blue of her eyes was under the forced light of the gas-globes . He had seen her only two or three times since that blush-kindling noon at Crestcliffe Inn . Their Paradise goings and comings had not coincided very evenly . `` You are just the same rude boy , are n't you ? '' she said leniently .