noon
`` I am so glad to think , '' she said one day , when Kenelm had joined her walk through the pleasant shrubberies in her garden ground , `` that you have made such friends with Mr. Emlyn . Though all hereabouts like him so much for his goodness , there are few who can appreciate his learning . To you it must be a surprise as well as pleasure to find , in this quiet humdrum place , a companion so clever and well-informed : it compensates for your disappointment in discovering that our brook yields such bad sport . '' `` Do n't disparage the brook ; it yields the pleasantest banks on which to lie down under old pollard oaks at noon , or over which to saunter at morn and eve . Where those charms are absent even a salmon could not please . Yes ; I rejoice to have made friends with Mr. Emlyn . I have learned a great deal from him , and am often asking myself whether I shall ever make peace with my conscience by putting what I have learned into practice . ''