midday
He entered the museum and passed beneath the gallery of Old Iron on his way to the Education Library . The vacant array of tables , the bays of attendant books had a quality of refuge ... . So much for Lewisham in the morning . Long before midday all the vigour of his wrath was gone , all his passionate conviction of Ethel 's unworthiness . Over a pile of neglected geological works he presented a face of gloom . His memory presented a picture of himself as noisy , overbearing , and unfair . What on earth had it all been about ?