noon
`` Except ourselves . '' `` Except ourselves , Ulysses ; and we 'll forgive each other . '' She took a step out from the shadow of the oaks ' foliage into the white sunlight and turned , looking back at him . And he followed , as did his heroic namesake in the golden noon of the age of fable . As they came in sight of the sea he halted . `` That 's curious ! '' he exclaimed ; `` there is the _ Ariani _ again ! ''