noon
This is it . Patience , he will be here yet . Morning lasts till noon . '' But , owing to the murkiness of the day , it was very hard to tell when noon came . Israel refused to credit that noon had come and gone , till dusk set plainly in . Dreading he knew not what , he found himself buried in the darkness of still another night . However patient and hopeful hitherto , fortitude now presently left him .