noon
With nothing to demand of them in the future it would be an easy matter to cut them off . On Friday , May twenty-fourth , then , he could begin . This would bring the end on the thirty-first . He considered a moment ; was it better to die at noon or at night ? An odd thing for a man to decide , but such details as this might as well be fixed now as later . It took but a moment 's deliberation ; he elected to go out at high noon . There would be dark enough afterwards -- possibly an eternity of dark .