noon
She could not dissemble her anger , and when my eldest brother waited on Ann on her name day with the ` pueri ' to give her a ` serenata ' on the water , whereas , a year agone , he had done Ursula the like honor , she fell upon my friend in our garden with such fierce and cruel words that my cousin had to come betwixt them , and then to temper my great wrath by saying that Ursula was a motherless child , whose hasty ways had never been bridled by a loving hand . As I mind me now of those days I do so with heartfelt thankfulness and joy . To be sure it but ill-pleased our grand-uncle and guardian , the knight Im Hoff , that Cousin Maud should suffer me , the daughter of a noble house , to mix with the low born race of a simple scrivener ; but in sooth Ann was more like by far to get harm in our house , among my brethren and their fellows , than I in the peaceful home by the river , where none but seemly speech was ever heard and sweet singing , nor ever seen but labor and good order and content . Right glad was I to tarry there ; but yet how good it was when Ann got leave to come to us for the whole of Sunday from noon till eventide ; when we would first sit and chatter and play alone together , and talk over all we had done in school ; thereafter we had my brothers with us , and would go out to take the air under the care of my cousin or of Magister Peter , or abide at home to sing or have merry pastime . After the Ave Maria , the old organist , Adam Heyden , Ann 's grand uncle , would come to seek her , and many sweet memories dwell in my mind of that worthy and gifted man , which I might set down were it not that I am Ann 's debtor for so many things that made my childhood happy . It was she , for a certainty , who first taught me truly to play ; for whereas my dolls , and men-at-arms and shop games , albeit they were small , were in all points like the true great ones , she had but a staff of wood wrapped round with a kerchief which she rocked in her arms for a babe ; and when she played a shop game with the little ones , she marked stones and leaves to be their wares and their money , and so found far greater pastime than we when we played with figs and almonds and cloves out of little wooden chests and linen-cloth sacks , and weighed them with brass weights on little scales with a tongue and string . It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes , and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz , over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands .