the midday sun
He then gave him an opiate , which had been left for him by the medical man whom they had called in at the coffee-house in Bridge street , when George fainted . So George Talboys fell into a heavy slumber , and dreamed that he went to Ventnor , to find his wife alive and happy , but wrinkled , old , and gray , and to find his son grown into a young man . Early the next morning he was seated opposite to Robert Audley in the first-class carriage of an express , whirling through the pretty open country toward Portsmouth . They landed at Ventnor under the burning heat of the midday sun . As the two young men came from the steamer , the people on the pier stared at George 's white face and untrimmed beard . `` What are we to do , George ? '' Robert Audley asked .