noon
There remained but one constable , and Denys and Gerard , the latter still sleeping heavily . Gerard awoke , and found Denys watching him with some anxiety . `` It is you for sleeping ! Why , 't is high noon . '' `` It was a blessed sleep , '' said Gerard ; `` methinks Heaven sent it me . It hath put as it were a veil between me and that awful night . To think that you and I sit here alive and well .