midday
Anita 's party had broken up . The winter sports did not compare , they complained , with St. Moritz . They disliked German cooking . Into the bargain the weather was not good ; the night 's snows turned soft by midday ; and the crowds that began to throng the hotels were solid citizens , not the fashionables of the Riviera . Anita 's arm forbade her traveling . In the reassembling of the party she went to the Kurhaus in the valley below the pension with one of the women who wished to take the baths . It was to the Kurhaus , then , that Stewart made his first excursion after the accident .