midday
`` You had better keep your thoughts to yourself , Hans , for whatever she is I think that she can read thoughts from far away , as you guessed last night . Therefore I would not have any if I were you . '' `` No , Baas , or if I must think , henceforth , it shall be only of gin which in this place is also far away , '' he replied , grinning . Then we came to the rest-house where I found that Robertson had already eaten his midday meal and like the Amahagger gone to sleep , while apparently Umslopogaas had done the same ; at least I saw nothing of him . Of this I was glad , since that wondrous Ayesha seemed to draw vitality out of me and after my long talk with her I felt very tired . So I too ate and then went to lie down under an old wall in the shade at a little distance , and to reflect upon the marvellous things that I had heard . Here be it said at once that I believed nothing of them , or at least very little indeed .