noon
`` The garden shall be yours . There are other bowers of roses in Shushan whither the women can go . None but you shall enter here , so long as it be your pleasure . Farewell , I will come to you to-morrow at noon . '' He turned and looked into her eyes , and then she took his hand and silently placed it upon her forehead in thanks . In a moment he was gone and she could hear his quick tread upon the marble of the steps outside , and in the path through the roses . When she knew that he was out of sight , Nehushta went out and stood in the broad blaze of the noonday sun .