midday
`` I do n't know the truth , '' he said . By this Carnac knew that Denzil was safe from the law . Tarboe did not see Junia that evening nor for many evenings , but Carnac and Junia met the next day in her own house . He came on her as she was arranging the table for midday dinner . She had taken up again the threads of housekeeping , cheering her father , helping the old French - woman cook -- a huge creature who moved like a small mountain , and was a tyrant in her way to the old cheerful avocat , whose life had been a struggle for existence , yet whose one daughter had married a rich lumberman , and whose other daughter could marry wealth , handsomeness and youth , if she chose . When Carnac saw Junia she was entering the dining-room with flowers and fruit , and he recalled the last time they met , when she had thrust the farewell bouquet of flowers into his hand . That was in the early autumn , and this was in late spring , and the light in her face was as glowing as then .