noon
The first three days she kept to her cabin except at the dinner-hour , when she ventured to the deck just outside and walked up and down for exercise . Then followed four days of nasty weather during which she did not leave her bed . As the sea calmed , she , wretched and reckless , had a chair put for herself under her window and sat there , veiled and swathed and turning her face away whenever a rare wandering passenger happened to pass along . Toward noon a man paused before her to light a cigarette . She , forgetting for the moment her precautions , looked at him . It chanced that he looked at her at exactly the same instant . Their glances met .