Noon
`` It 's true . I 'm not dreaming it . Noon TO-MORROW ? '' `` Noon to-morrow , '' she repeated . He walked to the door , stopped , turned , hesitated as if to come back . Then he smiled at her boyishly , happily , wagged his head gayly , as though admonishing himself to be about his business and to stop philandering , and went out ... . He did not see her drag herself to the sofa wearily ; he did not see her sink upon it and bury her face again in the cushions ; he did not hear the sobs that wrenched and shook her ... .