noon
`` Give it to me . '' * * * * * A hasty scrawl , it seemed , folded anyhow . Only two or three lines , yet Rupert conned them for a curiously long time . `` My darling , '' it ran , `` meet me to-day in the ruins at noon . A misfortune has happened to me , but if you trust me , all will still be well . -- Your Jack . '' Mr. Landale at length handed it back to Sophia .