noon
Wet and with dragging , heavy feet he turned out of the Medina Road to find the house dark and apparently deserted . Then a new and puzzling situation arose . When he stepped over the threshold and into the house he knew Clara was there . On that day she had not driven him to work in the morning or gone for him at noon hour because she did not want to look at him in the light of day , did not want again to see the puzzled , frightened look in his eyes . She had wanted him in the darkness alone , had waited for darkness . Now it was dark in the house and she waited for him . How simple it was !