noon
There was a soft brightness in their faces , as though rain had fallen in the night ; but it was the warm sweet rain of joy that brings the flowers , and is but sister to the sun . They are , at the time of my writing , quite old friends of mine , and both have an excessive opinion of my wisdom and good-nature . `` That lie , '' Orlando once said to me long after , `` was the truest thing I ever said in my life , '' -- a remark which may not give the reader a very exalted idea of his general veracity . As the coach left long before pretty young actresses even dreamed of getting up , I had to control my impatient desire to call on Mademoiselle Sylvia Joy till it was fully noon . And even then she was not to be seen . I tried again in the afternoon with better success . Rain had been falling in the night with her too , I surmised , but it had failed to dim her gay eyes , and had left her complexion unimpaired .