noon
It is the ways and means committee to the great legislature of the body . For several days after his fear that Peter Siner would marry Cissie Dildine old Captain Renfrew was as felicitous as a lover newly reconciled to his mistress . He ambled between the manor and the livery - stable with an abiding sense of well-being . When he approached his home in the radiance of high noon and saw the roof of the old mansion lying a bluish gray in the shadows of the trees , it filled his heart with joy to feel that it was not an old and empty house that awaited his coming , but that in it worked a busy youth who would be glad to see him enter the gate . The fear of some unattended and undignified death which had beset the old gentleman during the last eight or ten years of his life vanished under Peter 's presence . When he thought of it at all now , he always previsioned himself being lifted in Peter 's athletic arms and laid properly on his big four-poster . At times , when Peter sat working over the books in the library , the Captain felt a prodigious urge to lay a hand on the young man 's broad and capable shoulder .