midday
There is a fitness of things , and there was no fitness -- he said -- of him for her . And yet she must and would ever be more to him than any one else . He would glory in going through life unloved , while his soul lived in and on the phantom companionship of that vision of delight which she was and should ever be . The midday bells sounded softly here and there . He would walk . As I say , he went slowly down the old rue Bourbon . He had no hunger ; he would pass by the Women 's Exchange .