noon
`` Oh , he 's a good-fellow . I wonder I do n't run across him . '' `` Perhaps that 's because you never call on Miss Shirley . '' Miss Macroyd waited for this to take effect , but he kept a glacial surface towards her , and she went on : `` They were walking together in the park at noon . I suppose they had been to church together . '' Verrian manifested no more than a polite interest in the fact . He managed so well that he confirmed Miss Macroyd in a tacit conjecture .