noon of the winter sun
The sixth hour similarly was the Roman way of saying twelve . Winter-time , in fact , was God 's time , and though there was nothing wicked -LRB- far from it -RRB- in adopting strange measures , yet the simple , the childlike , clung to the sacred tradition , which they had received from their fathers and forefathers at their mother 's knee . Then followed a long and eloquent passage , which recapitulated the opening about unhappy divisions , and contained several phrases , regarding the lengths to which such divisions might go , which were strikingly applicable to duelling . The peroration recapitulated the recapitulation , in case anyone had missed it , and the coda , the close itself , in the full noon of the winter sun , was full of joy at the healing of all such unhappy divisions . And now ... . The rain rattling against the windows drowned the Doxology . The doctrine was so much to her mind that Miss Mapp gave a shilling to the offertory instead of her usual sixpence , to be devoted to the organist and choir fund .