noon
`` Might I but see her ! Would she but love me ! O for a draught of the Well at the World 's End , that the love might last long and long ! '' So he went on a while betwixt the trees and the thickets , till it was a little past noon . But all on a sudden a panic fear took him , lest she should indeed come to the castle while he was away , and not finding him , depart again , who knows whither ; and when this thought came upon him , he cried aloud , and hastened at his swiftest back again to the castle , and came there breathless and wearied , and ran to the old woman , and cried out to her ; `` Is she come ? is she come ? '' The carline laughed and said , `` Nay , she is not , but thou art come : praise be to the saints !