noon
`` It must be more than a year , '' answered Marietta . `` We pass it often , but we hardly ever go in . '' `` It is early , '' observed Beroviero , speaking as indifferently as he could . `` When we left home it lacked an hour and a half of noon by the dial . Shall we go into the church for a while ? '' `` If you like , '' replied Marietta mechanically . Nothing made much difference that morning , but she knew that the high mass would be over and that the church would be quiet and cool .