noon
`` Guess I 'll make up my diary and write some letters . I understand now why Dick was so insistent on this adobe . You take a look at the cook tent and I 'll see if the house tent is still standing while I get some paper . '' The wind increased in violence until long past noon . They retrieved some canned stuff from the kitchen tent and ate it with their mouths full of the sand that sifted through the cracks of the doors and windows . Madam satisfied herself with crackers . It was very hot , even in the adobe .