about noon
All through the night it followed her , and when morning came the haggard misery it had wrought upon her face had robbed it of all its youth . Mrs. Raleigh tried to comfort her with hopeful words , but she did not seem so much as to hear them . She was listening , listening intently , for every sound . It was about noon that young Travers raced in , hot and breathless , but he stopped short in evident dismay when he saw Audrey . He would have withdrawn as precipitately as he had entered , but she sprang after him and caught him by the arms . `` You have news ! '' she cried wildly .