about midday
`` The seventh . At what hour ? '' `` It is not known . Perhaps about midday , perhaps a little later -- when there were black clouds in the sky . '' The silence fell again , hard and full of meaning , then Cary leaned forward and laid his hand upon the other 's arm `` I 've hunted long alone , now we 'll hunt for a moment together ! Tell me again . '' `` He came down the bank in a great noise and rolling of stone and earth .