noon
It might easily have become an impossible one . But it was a sacred comradeship , refined above the love of friend for friend , or lover for lover , by her faith , her helplessness , and need . We tried so hard to be merry . When we had fed the dogs at noon and eaten our meal we would strap on the _ raquettes _ , the snow-shoes with which Danton had furnished us , and travel over the crusted drifts beside the stream . We ran out on the surface of the river and made snowballs , and pelted each other , laughing like school children . But after the journey had begun once more we would sit quietly beside each other , and for long we would hardly utter a word . I think that she liked best to sit beside me in the narrow sleigh and lean against my shoulder , her physical weariness the reflection of her spiritual unrest .