Nearly noon
`` Long sleep , uncle ! '' I cried . `` Is it very late ? '' `` Nearly noon , my boy . Well , how are you ? '' `` I -- I think I 'm quite well , thank you , uncle , '' I said , springing up , and feeling ashamed to be lying there , but turning so giddy that I should have fallen had Uncle Dick not caught my arm . `` Sit down , '' he said quietly .