noon
`` They are going to work in the old cemetery to prepare a place for Silas Blackburn with his fathers . That 's why I 've come to wake you up . The minister 's telephoned Katherine . He will be here before noon . Do you know it 's after ten o'clock ? '' For some time Bobby stared through the window at the desolate , ragged landscape . It was abnormally cold even for the late fall .