nearly noon
I said to myself , `` I will go and tell them I am ashamed , and will do whatever they would have me do ! '' I rose , and went straight up the stairs to the garret . The wooden chamber was just as when first I saw it , the mirror dimly reflecting everything before it . It was nearly noon , and the sun would be a little higher than when first I came : I must raise the hood a little , and adjust the mirrors accordingly ! If I had but been in time to see Mr. Raven do it ! I pulled the chains , and let the light fall on the first mirror . I turned then to the other : there were the shapes of the former vision -- distinguishable indeed , but tremulous like a landscape in a pool ruffled by `` a small pipling wind ! ''