noon
At any rate one December , `` Home James '' opened at the Shubert , and all the students encored Marcia Meadow , who sang a song about the Blundering Blimp in the first act and did a shaky , shivery , celebrated dance in the last . Marcia was nineteen . She did n't have wings , but audiences agreed generally that she did n't need them . She was a blonde by natural pigment , and she wore no paint on the streets at high noon . Outside of that she was no better than most women . It was Charlie Moon who promised her five thousand Pall Malls if she would pay a call on Horace Tarbox , prodigy extraordinary . Charlie was a senior in Sheffield , and he and Horace were first cousins .