noon
`` You were in it , were n't you ? '' `` Yes -- a bit . '' The other drew a sighing breath . `` I 'd have given all I had to have been there ... `` From noon to sundown I watched the fight , and never stirred . My body was asleep . I was aware of nothing but those three black dots , miles beneath me on that plain of silver , spurting flame at each other . Bonnet Rouge grazed beside me .