noon
They were much together , this man and woman who were plighted to each other , for why should they not be , since they were to become man and wife , and since neither was so happy under other circumstances ? They were not what a profound , unsentimental person would consider models of common-sense , but they were not depending upon the opinions of profound , unsentimental persons for anything in particular ; so this did not affect them . They exhibited no great interest in society , though each commanded a place there , but they would go to church or theater together , and they were much addicted to luncheons . She would come down town at noon to meet him , and then -- what banquets ! Sometimes they would visit the restaurants where there were fine things , and he would seek to make of her a gourmet . He taught her the beauties of the bobolink in his later attractive form , the form he assumes when , after having been transformed into a reed bird , he comes back on ice to the region where , in the midsummer , he disported himself , and stirs the heart of the good liver , as in June he did the heart of the poet . He taught her the difference between Roquefort cheese , that green garden of toothsome fungi , that crumbly , piquant apotheosis of the best that comes from curd , and all other cheeses , and taught , too , the virtues of each in its own way .