noon
Even if she had come near Coron she had passed while I lay asleep . That was why the proas had gone . They had seen the streak of smoke , and slipping behind the island of Coron had gone around Culion , and so on , home . I must have slept for some time after that , for when I was next conscious of anything it was the forenoon of another day , and the cave was flooded with the bright light of noon . I did not suffer anything now . That seemed to have passed . I lay quite easy , and wondered what it was that had aroused me .