noon
A few hours later she entered her little room over the kindergarten , bolted the door with shaking fingers , and emptied a heavy canvas sack upon the middle of her bed . Then she opened her trunk , and taking thence the brass match-box and chamois-skin bag added their contents to the pile . Next she laid herself upon the bed and gathered the gleaming heaps of gold pieces to her with both arms , burying her face in them with long sighs of unspeakable delight . It was a little past noon , and the day was fine and warm . The leaves of the huge cherry trees threw off a certain pungent aroma that entered through the open window , together with long thin shafts of golden sunlight . Below , in the kindergarten , the children were singing gayly and marching to the jangling of the piano . Trina heard nothing , saw nothing .