noon
The Wooden Hand must have been cuckoo -- he looked it . If he was n't I am totally at a loss to account for his indulgence . B. and I spent a morning in The Enormous Room without results , an astonishing acquisition of nervousness excepted . _ Après la soupe _ -LRB- noon -RRB- we were conducted _ en haut _ , told to leave our spoons and bread -LRB- which we did -RRB- and -- in company with several others whose names were within a furlong of the last man called -- were descended to the corridor . All that afternoon we waited . Also we waited all next morning . We spent our time talking quietly with a buxom pink-cheeked Belgian girl who was in attendance as translator for one of _ les femmes _ .