noon
`` How then shall ye know all parables ? '' Verily , they lie about us by the wayside , and the whole earth is vocal with the wisdom of the Lord . I can not go with our party step by step ; I have a summer to spend with them . They came to Jefferson at noon , and sat themselves down in the solemn high court and council of the mountain kings . First , they must have rooms . In the very face of majesty they must settle their traps . `` You are lucky in coming in for one vacancy , made to-day , '' the proprietor said , throwing open a door that showed them a commodious second-floor corner-room , looking each way with broad windows upon the circle of glory , from Adams to Lafayette .