about noon
The girls found dead wood very scarce that day , but at last on seeing on the other side of the stream quite a gleaning of branches deposited there by the torrent , Marie and Jeanne crossed over through the water ; whilst Bernadette , more delicate than they were , a trifle young-ladyfied , perhaps , remained on the bank lamenting , and not daring to wet her feet . She was suffering slightly from humour in the head , and her mother had expressly bidden her to wrap herself in her / capulet / , * a large white / capulet / which contrasted vividly with her old black woollen dress . When she found that her companions would not help her , she resignedly made up her mind to take off her / sabots / , and pull down her stockings . It was then about noon , the three strokes of the Angelus rang out from the parish church , rising into the broad calm winter sky , which was somewhat veiled by fine fleecy clouds . And it was then that a great agitation arose within her , resounding in her ears with such a tempestuous roar that she fancied a hurricane had descended from the mountains , and was passing over her . But she looked at the trees and was stupefied , for not a leaf was stirring . Then she thought that she had been mistaken , and was about to pick up her / sabots / , when again the great gust swept through her ; but , this time , the disturbance in her ears reached her eyes , she no longer saw the trees , but was dazzled by a whiteness , a kind of bright light which seemed to her to settle itself against the rock , in a narrow , lofty slit above the Grotto , not unlike an ogival window of a cathedral .