noon
Her words expressed himself . `` I thought you would be here , '' she told him presently . `` I wanted to see you again . '' She was flushed from crossing the broad area tranced in noon heat ; and now the green cool of the jungle was sweet to her , and they were close together , but walking not so slowly as last night ... . Loneliness came to them when they reached the empty place where the wounded one had lain in the shelter of the rock . They felt strangely excluded from something that had belonged to them . All the wide branches above were empty .