noon
It was probably ten o'clock when I knocked at her chamber door . Toward eleven there was a movement in her room . Then I opened the door to bid her good-morning , but she neither heard nor saw anything , and knelt at the priedieu as if turned to stone . Before going to sleep and early in the morning I expect such things , but when it is almost noon ! Her porridge still stood untouched on the table here , and to-day there is no occasion for fasting . But I did not like to disturb her , and perhaps she would still be kneeling before the Virgin 's image if the maid-servant had n't blundered in to carry a bouquet which Herr Peter Schlumperger 's servant had brought . Then Barbara started up as if a hornet had stung her .