noon
Do you know how long we have been here watching ? '' `` I have no idea whatever . '' He looked at his watch and then pointed upward at the heavens where in the zenith a film of light appeared through the blur of cloud and smoke . `` There 's the sun , '' he said ; `` it 's noon . We 've been sitting here for hours . The time seems long and again it seems short . Ah , if I only knew which way fortune inclined !