noon
But anyway , as she had said , the old prairie horses they were riding would carry them home should they mistake the road . There was really no danger . It was a gorgeous day . The sun was shining with unabated splendour ; as yet it wanted an hour to noon . The brilliant daylight was somehow different here to what it was on the prairie . The fierce sunlight poured down upon an unbroken carpet of dull green , which seemed to have in it a tinge of the blackness of the heavy tree-trunks which it concealed beneath . The result was curiously striking .