noon
We dine to-day with his Excellency . '' I turned to find Elspeth , and close behind her Doctor Blair and Governor Nicholson . All my heat left me , and I had not another thought for my tormentors . In that torrid noon she looked as cool and fragrant as a flower . Her clothes were simple compared with the planters ' dames , but of a far more dainty fashion . She wore , I remember , a gown of pale sprigged muslin , with a blue kerchief about her shoulders and blue ribbons in her wide hat . As her hand lay lightly on my arm I did not think of my triumph , being wholly taken up with the admiration of her grace .