noon
Philip shook his head , and , displeased with his companion , sought his pillow . He took care to put his money under his head , and to lock his door . The brothers started at daybreak ; Sidney was even more discontented than on the previous day . The weather was hot and oppressive ; they rested for some hours at noon , and in the cool of the evening renewed their way . Philip had made up his mind to steer for a town in the thick of a hunting district , where he hoped his equestrian capacities might again befriend him ; and their path now lay through a chain of vast dreary commons , which gave them at least the advantage to skirt the road-side unobserved . But , somehow or other , either Philip had been misinformed as to an inn where he had proposed to pass the night , or he had missed it ; for the clouds darkened , and the sun went down , and no vestige of human habitation was discernible . Sidney , footsore and querulous , began to weep , and declare that he could stir no further ; and while Philip , whose iron frame defied fatigue , compassionately paused to rest his brother , a low roll of thunder broke upon the gloomy air .