noons
It was clear that the little society had marooned me to an isle by myself . I was a leper , unfit for gentlefolks ' company , because , forsooth , I had sold goods , which every one of them did also , and had tried to sell them fair . The thing made me very bitter . I sat in my house during the hot noons when no one stirred , and black anger filled my heart . I grew as peevish as a slighted girl , and would no doubt have fretted myself into some signal folly , had not an event occurred which braced my soul again . This was the arrival of the English convoy . When I heard that the ships were sighted , I made certain of trouble .