noon
`` Used as my earlier life was , Eveena , to the Eastern prostrations of my own world , I hate all that recals them ; and if I must accept , as I fulfil , these forms in the Halls of the Zinta , let me never be reminded of them by you . '' If I could have endured to describe to Eveena the terrible trial scene , that which occurred before she had the chance to question me would have certainly sealed my lips . The past night had told upon me as no fatigue , no anxiety , no disaster of my life on Earth had ever done . I awoke faint and exhausted as a nervous valetudinarian , and I suppose my feeling must have been plainly visible in my face , for Eveena would not allow me to rise from the cushions till she had summoned an _ ambâ _ and procured the material of a morning meal , though the hour was noon . Far too considerate to question me then , she was perhaps a little disappointed that , almost before I had dressed , a message from her father summoned me to his presence . `` It is right , '' he said quietly , and with no show of feeling , though his face was somewhat pale , `` that you should be acquainted with the fulfilment of the sentence you assisted to pass . The outcast was found this morning dead in his own chamber .