noon
We all looked on in horrified amazement as we saw , when he stood back , the woman , with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own , pass in through the interstice where scarce a knife-blade could have gone . We all felt a glad sense of relief when we saw the Professor calmly restoring the strings of putty to the edges of the door . When this was done , he lifted the child and said : `` Come now , my friends ; we can do no more till to-morrow . There is a funeral at noon , so here we shall all come before long after that . The friends of the dead will all be gone by two , and when the sexton lock the gate we shall remain . Then there is more to do ; but not like this of to-night . As for this little one , he is not much harm , and by to-morrow night he shall be well .