nearly noon
said he . Sivert got up in the middle of the night to see how things were going , and found his father out already on the same errand . Oh , but it was a thrilling time -- a day of great events ! But next day , Geissler stayed in bed till nearly noon , worn out now that the fit had passed . He did not trouble to go up and look at the boat on the lake ; and but for what he had said the day before , he would never have bothered to look at the sawmill . Even the irrigation works interested him less than at first -- and when he saw that neither field nor meadow had turned green in the course of the night , he lost heart , never thinking of how the water flowed , and flowed all the time , and spread out farther and farther over the ground . He backed down a little , and said now : `` It may take time -- you wo n't see any change perhaps before tomorrow again .