about noon
And the first day she rode without uttering a word , and hardly for one moment turning her eyes away from the little girl , whom she held on her knees . At our first camp I saw her during the night walking about , rocking the child in her arms and gazing down at it by the light of the moon . After we had started on our second day 's march she asked me how soon we should come to the first village of the inhabited country . `` I said we should be there about noon . ``` And will there be women there ? ' she inquired . `` I told her that it was a large village .