noon
`` I 'll try to fix it . It is only water-clogged . My little compass on the charm is all right and it will give us our bearings , north and south , so that I can get the time by the sun . I 'll drive a little stake out there on the level , and when the shadow is precisely north and south , then it is noon . It 's all very simple , Lady Tennyson . '' `` I 'm only the cook , Hugh . Wo n't you please call me Tennys ? ''