nearly noon
`` Come , Boris , '' she said , without looking at him . He obeyed her and rose to his feet . `` Let us go to the wall , '' she said , `` and look out once more on the desert . It must be nearly noon . Perhaps -- perhaps we shall hear the call to prayer . '' They walked down the winding alleys towards the edge of the garden . The sound of the flute of Larbi died away gradually into silence .