noon
All his own boyish handiwork , remember , under his father 's eye had been guided toward the worship of God . '' ... _ And incline our hearts to keep this law _ . '' The music ceased . He heard the organist speaking , up in the loft ; criticising , no doubt : and it reminded him somehow of the small sounds of home and his mother moving about her housework in the hush between breakfast and noon . He stepped out into the sunlight again , and wandering through archway and cloister found himself at length beyond the college walls and at the junction of two avenues of elms , between the trunks of which shone the acres of a noble meadow , level and green . The avenues ran at a right angle , east and south ; the one old , with trees of magnificent girth , the other new and interset with poplars . Taffy stood irresolute .