noon
Then she thought how fortunate it was that men smoked . La Touche had a Swedish match box nearly full of matches and Bompard had a tinder box , one of the sort that makes a spark by the striking of a wheel against a flint . Then she yawned . She had been in the open air since early dawn and it was now noon . She was not tired , but she was filled with a craving for something , yet she could not tell what this something was that she wanted and without which she felt somehow lost . Then she knew -- it was a roof . A person accustomed to live under a roof and suddenly condemned to live in the open suffers nothing for the first few hours .