noon
`` I did not dare stir . It grew darker and all the air was sweet with falling dews and the river fragrance , and the leaves rustled together , the stars came out for there was no moon to check them . On the Beaufeit farm they were having a dance . Susanne Beaufeit had been married that noon in St. Anne . The sound of the fiddles came down like strange voices from out the woods and I was that frightened -- '' `` Poor Pani ! '' caressing the hand tenderly . `` Then you stopped sobbing but you had tight hold of my neck .