noon
That folly had wholly gone . There -- I have written those words , but I have no sooner written than I repent them . It is not a folly for a boy to be honestly in love , as I was in love with Barbara . I was silly , if you please -- a moon-struck , calf-loving idiot , if you like -- but in all that hot noon of my madness there never was an unclean thought in my mind nor an unclean prompting of the body . However , all that was past and done with . My liver was washed clean of that passion ; it had not left a spot upon my heart . I have only loved two women in all my life , and when the second love came into my life that first fancy was dead and buried , and no other fancy has ever for a moment arisen to trouble my happiness .