noon
Through this day and that which followed he kept away from home , only returning late at night . No more news of Beatrice came . He saw that his father regarded him with looks of curiosity , but only conversation of the wonted kind passed between them . When Saturday arrived he was no longer in doubt whether to pursue the one faint hope of finding Emily again in Bushey Park ; the difficulty was to pass the time till noon , before which it was useless to start . He was due for the last sitting in the studio at Teddington , but that was an ordeal impossible to go through in his present state of mind . He went to Hampton by train , lunched again at the King 's Arms , though but hastily , and at length reached the spot in the park where his eyes had discovered Emily reading . It was not such a day as Wednesday had been ; the sun shone intermittently , but there was threatening of rain .