noon
It soothed him by gentle encouragement of his hopes . Her love was so like that calm sunshine that they seemed to make one presence to him , and he believed in them both alike . And Dinah was so bound up with the sad memories of his first passion that he was not forsaking them , but rather giving them a new sacredness by loving her . Nay , his love for her had grown out of that past : it was the noon of that morning . But Seth ? Would the lad be hurt ? Hardly ; for he had seemed quite contented of late , and there was no selfish jealousy in him ; he had never been jealous of his mother 's fondness for Adam .