noon
`` Disarm yourself , old fellow , '' he said . `` I am not going to try to dissuade you . I tried that last year , and I did n't succeed ; and if I had promise of success now , I would n't try . Life 's a fearful thing , just because , when we shut our eyes to what is right in the morning , at noon it 's not given us to see the difference between black and white , unless our eyes get washed with the right sort of tears . '' Alec leaned his head out of the window ; he felt that his brother was making a muff of himself , and did not like it . `` If you see this thing clearly , '' Robert continued , `` I say , go ahead and do it ; but I want you just to see the whole of it . According to you , I am on the wrong track ; but I have got far along it , and now I have other people to consider .