midday
But the prevailing magnificence carried him over this trouble . `` Let us at least have this little time for ourselves , '' he said , and that seemed to settle their position . Save for its brevity and these intimations of future trouble it was a very fine time indeed . Their midday dinner together , for example -- it was a little cold when at last they came to it on Saturday -- was immense fun . There was no marked subsidence of appetite ; they ate extremely well in spite of the meeting of their souls , and in spite of certain shiftings of chairs and hand claspings and similar delays . He really made the acquaintance of her hands then for the first time , plump white hands with short white fingers , and the engagement ring had come out of its tender hiding-place and acted as keeper to the wedding ring . Their eyes were perpetually flitting about the room and coming back to mutual smiles .