Noon
`` Good night -- dear , '' she said , obediently . `` It 's true . I 'm not dreaming it . Noon TO-MORROW ? '' `` Noon to-morrow , '' she repeated . He walked to the door , stopped , turned , hesitated as if to come back . Then he smiled at her boyishly , happily , wagged his head gayly , as though admonishing himself to be about his business and to stop philandering , and went out ... .