noon
He thought of training himself to hate her , but none the less through the hours of the night he heard the refrain , _ Every man loves her at sight _ . In a clearer condition , his very inability to shut her out of mind , despite his thousand efforts of will , would have taught him that another judgment was upon him . HE LOVED HER . At noon the days are a little more yellow , and the shadows a trifle longer , while at evening the snows on the far mountains give the air a coolness gently admonitory of the changing season ; with these exceptions there is scarcely a difference between the September to which we now come and the closing stages of June . Count Corti is fully settled in his position . Withal , however , he is very miserable . A new light has been let in upon his being .