noon
`` We can not stop now , Pablo , '' said Edward . `` Humphrey would like to have the calf , and we must take our chance of its remaining by its mother till we come back . I think it will for a day or two , so let us push on . '' No further adventure happened , and they arrived a little after noon at Oswald 's cottage . He was not at home , his wife saying that she believed that he was with the intendant , who had come back from London the day before . `` But I will put on my hood and see , '' said the young woman . In a few minutes she returned with Oswald .