Noon
Several Aunties who lived `` along Gran 's street and along the next and over the field '' had to be left out . As soon as postcard writing palled a sailor came along providentially , took him to see the hen coops , and let him find two eggs that had been laid . Marcella wrote long letters home ; only to Wullie did she mention Louis , and even to him she said very little . Noon came , and the boat deck was very hot . The chiming of bells in the churches told when the moment of the Elevation came and passed ; the little reports sounded from the old mountain : she thought they sounded like guns that had been fired a thousand years ago . Jimmy said he did n't feel well , and went to sleep after a while ; an Italian boy with black , hyacinthine curls and swimming black eyes spied her white frock from his little boat out in the bay : tying up to the accommodation ladder , he stood singing a passionate song to the twanging of a guitar . She wondered whether this were a personal tribute or a way of earning money .