noon
Leonard for the first time thought of the pawnbroker . He had clothes to spare , and Riccabocca 's watch . No ; that last he shrank from applying to such base uses . He went home at noon , and met Helen at the street-door . She too had been out , and her soft cheek was rosy red with unwonted exercise and the sense of joy . She had still preserved the few gold pieces which Leonard had taken back to her on his first visit to Miss Starke 's . She had now gone out and bought wool and implements for work ; and meanwhile she had paid the rent .