noon
`` Patience , _ chérie _ , '' replied her friend , looking up from the embroidery on which she was engaged . `` We have had many such mornings since we came here , but they only make the day seem brighter when the sun does shine out . See , there is the blue sky beyond the housetops ! The full sun will doubtless be out ere noon . I often think a wise Providence must send all this mist and rain . If some such means were not taken to cleanse these streets , we should soon not be able to breathe the air of St Malo . I can not understand what has taken possession of my uncle to leave our broad acres in Picardy for these wretched streets and bare , gloomy walls . ''