noon
It leaps to conclusions -- erroneous maybe , but sustained by the feminine conviction that what is instinctive must be true . Selwyn 's was essentially a creative mind , prone to emotionalism and to inspiration . With men of his type logic is largely retrogressive : the conclusion is reached first ; the reasons follow . A few days before his imagination had been strangely stirred by the swiftness of thought which at twilight in England could visualise New York at noon . Simple though the scientific explanation might be , it had left him with a sense of detachment , almost as if he were on Olympus and the world spread out below for him to gaze upon . That feeling now returned with redoubled force . The group of villagers had parted into many human fragments .