noon
`` I came to answer your letter . You know I do n't like to write very well . And I 've brought my brother , and a dear friend of mine whom I want you to know . It did not rain in Boston when we started , but it came on again before noon , and all the afternoon it has been a splendid down-pour . Something really worth while to be out in , you know ; not a little exasperating drizzle . That 's the kind of rain one ca n't bear , and catches cold in . How the showers swept round the hills , and the cascades thundered and flashed as we came by !