noon
`` But if you could only hear of the doings of Mrs. Thackeray , Brother Cross , you 'd see how needful it would be to put forth all your strength to bring her back to the right path . '' `` The Lord will know . None of us can hide our evil from the eyes of the Lord . I will strive with our sister , when I seek her , which will be this very noon , but it is of yourself , Sister Cooper , and your daughter Margaret , that I would speak . Where is she that I see her not ? '' This was the question that made our quasi hierophant look up with a far greater degree of interest than he had felt in the long and random twattle to which he had been compelled to listen . Where was she -- that fair daughter ?