noon
At present she is here on the sly : so if you thwart her , she 'll be off again , as sure as fate . '' Little was forced to see the truth of this , and promised to restrain himself , hard as the task was . He took the house ; and used to let himself into it with a latch-key at about ten o clock every night . There he used to stay and watch till past noon ; and nearly every day he was rewarded by seeing the Protestant nun walk in her garden . He was restless and miserable till she came out ; when she appeared his heart bounded and thrilled ; and when once he had feasted his eyes upon her , he would go about the vulgar affairs of life pretty contentedly . By advice of Ransome , he used to sit in his other house from seven till nine , and read at the window , to afford his beloved a joy similar to that he stole himself . And such is the power of true love that these furtive glances soothed two lives .