midday
`` What bolts and bars are keeping me ? I am guilty of a folly . I am degrading myself . '' At midday Brother Andrew came with his food . `` Brother Paul is buried , '' he sang , `` the coffin was beautiful -- it was covered with flowers -- we buried him in his cassock , with his beads and psalter -- we left the cross on his breast -- he loved it and died with it in his hands -- the Father has come home -- he said mass this morning . '' John Storm could bear no more . He pushed the lay brother aside and made straight for the Superior 's room .