midday
He feared lest she suspected him of flirting . `` You 're very generous , Lady Dawn . '' They had arrived at a lookout point , where a lichen-covered summerhouse stood , protected on the steeper side by a low stone wall . Below them lay the moat , green-scummed and starred with water-lilies ; throbbing in the midday haze , the emerald sward of the parkland seemed to float . Against the wall she halted . `` What makes you say that I 'm generous ? '' For all his thirty-six years , he blushed like a boy .