about noon
All are thankful , though they are the ones who would have a right to receive thanks . All are submissive , all would like to be friends , like to obey , think little . Like children are all people . '' At about noon , he came through a village . In front of the mud cottages , children were rolling about in the street , were playing with pumpkin-seeds and sea-shells , screamed and wrestled , but they all timidly fled from the unknown Samana . In the end of the village , the path led through a stream , and by the side of the stream , a young woman was kneeling and washing clothes . When Siddhartha greeted her , she lifted her head and looked up to him with a smile , so that he saw the white in her eyes glistening .