an hour after noon before
`` My lord told him presently that if temporal pains did not move him , perhaps , it was that he desired spiritual -- for my lord was very angry , and scarce knew what he was saying . But Master Richard made no answer . I will tell you , Sir John , plainly , that I thought he was but a fool to anger my lord so by his silence , for it could not be that he did not hear : my lord bawled loud enough to awaken the dead , and I saw the folk behind , some laughing and some grave . `` It would be full half an hour after noon before my lord had done his questions , and lay back in his chair wrathful at getting no answer , though the men that held Master Raynal shook him from side to side . `` Then it was that the end came . `` I was observing Master Raynal very closely , wondering whether he were mad or deaf , and on a sudden he lifted his eyes , and his lips closed . He appeared to be looking at my lord , but it was another that he saw .