noon
One was that he had no capacity for large and intricate plans , and the other was that he felt bound as by an invisible tether to the land where he had been born . As he struggled with all these conflicting considerations and emotions , his head fairly ached with futile effort . He was glad to lay it upon Julia 's soft bosom , to forget everything else again in the sweetness of a stolen moment . He had been in New York about ten days when he awoke one morning near noon . An immense languor possessed him . He had been with Julia the night before and never had she been more charming , more abandoned . ... He ordered his breakfast to be sent up , and then stretched out in bed and lit an expensive Russian cigarette .