noon
And then they camped again and lit their fire ; and night came down and the two wanderers slept . The nightingale sang until he woke the cuckoo : and the cuckoo filled the leafy air so full of his two limpid notes that the dreams of Rodriguez heard them and went away , back over their border to dreamland . Rodriguez awoke Morano , who lit his fire : and soon they had struck their camp and were riding on . By noon they saw that if they hurried on they could come to Lowlight by nightfall . But this was not Rodriguez ' plan , for he had planned to ride into Lowlight , as he had done once before , at the hour when Serafina sat in her balcony in the cool of the evening , as Spanish ladies in those days sometimes did . So they tarried long by their resting-place at noon and then rode slowly on . And when they camped that night they were still in the forest .