noon
For it could not help bringing up the unget-aroundable fact that , all gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding , no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion : it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must _ begin _ in blood , whatever may answer afterward . If history teaches anything , it teaches that . What this folk needed , then , was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine , and I was the wrong man for them . Two days later , toward noon , Sandy began to show signs of excitement and feverish expectancy . She said we were approaching the ogre 's castle . I was surprised into an uncomfortable shock . The object of our quest had gradually dropped out of my mind ; this sudden resurrection of it made it seem quite a real and startling thing for a moment , and roused up in me a smart interest .