noon
-- No ! -- He would rather stay in his native land , begin again his former life , reflect and wait obstinately . Anyway , now that he knows where she is , that village of Amezqueta , at a distance of five or six hours from here , haunts him in a dangerous way , and he hugs all sorts of sacrilegious projects which , until to-day , he would never have dared hardly to conceive . At noon , he returned to his isolated house to see his mother . The febrile and somewhat artificial improvement of the morning had continued . Nursed by the old Doyanburu , Franchita said that she felt better , and , in the fear that Ramuntcho might become dreamy , she made him return to the square to attend the Sunday ball-game . The breath of the wind became warm again , blew from the south ; none of the shivers of a moment ago remained ; on the contrary , a summer sun and atmosphere , on the reddened woods , on the rusty ferns , on the roads where continued to fall the sad leaves .