noon
Without one thought of unconventionality , I procured a room for Kathy at the place where she and her mother would have stopped . Then I left her and went to the other hotel to join my classmates . But carnival-mad ; they did not come in at all , and went back on an express which passed through the town in the early morning . When Kathy and I reached home at noon , we found her mother white and hysterical . She would listen to no explanations . She told me that I should have brought Kathy back the night before -- that she had missed her train and thus her appointment with us . And she told me that I was in honor bound to marry Kathy .