noon
`` Twenty-seven days ! In such times much may happen in them , Amada . Still , except death , what can come between us ? '' `` I know of nothing , Shabaka , whose past is shadowless as the noon . '' `` Or I either , '' I replied . Now we were standing in the clear sunlight , but as I said the words a wind stirred the palm-trees and the shadow from one of them fell full upon me , and she who was very quick , noted it . `` Some might take that for an omen , '' she said with a little laugh , pointing to the line of the shadow .