noon
She was lying there asleep . He looked at her with horror , and passed on beyond the partition , where he took down the peasant clothes and put them on . Then he seized a pair of scissors , cut off his long hair , and went out along the path down the hill to the river , where he had not been for more than three years . A road ran beside the river and he went along it and walked till noon . Then he went into a field of rye and lay down there . Towards evening he approached a village , but without entering it went towards the cliff that overhung the river . There he again lay down to rest .