midday
I 've been too busy to make any yet . '' He gurgled out some expressions of gratitude and took his departure , while I renewed my attack upon the sardines and bread . Fortified by this simple cheer , I devoted the remainder of the morning to tidying up my shed . I felt that I was living in such uncertain times that it would be just as well to remove all possible traces of the work I had been engaged on , and by midday the place looked almost as tidy as when I had first entered it . I then treated myself to a cigar and began to keep a look-out for Joyce . She had not said in her letter what time she would arrive , but I knew that there were a couple of trains early in the afternoon , and I remembered that I had told her to come straight to the hut . It must have been getting on for two when I suddenly caught sight of a motor car with a solitary occupant coming quickly along the Tilbury road .