noon
He thought of the Highlands . Above him and at some distance to the right appeared a distribution of cliffs that reminded him of that hiding-place after Culloden . He looked to see the birchwood , the wheeling eagle . The sun was at noon . Riding in a solitude , he almost dozed in the warm light . The Highlands and the eagle wheeling above the crag ... . Black Hill and Glenfernie and White Farm and Alexander ... .