noon
I 'll tell you just what he said as near as I can remember , and see if you can figure out the answer . I came away to-day from his office , squeezed out and dried up , but I gave him no back talk . I simply said , ` Mr. Tescheron , I love your daughter , Gabrielle , and I am here , sir , to ask you to set the day for the wedding , ' just like that , as pleasant as if I was chatting to him after church . Say , I thought he would hurrah , or take me around to lunch -LRB- it was then after noon -RRB- and introduce me to his friends . But he proceeded to breathe an early frost on my green and tender leaves . As I was about to say , Ben , as near as I can remember after rehearsing all this afternoon is this -- and I tell you , because if I do n't the chances are I 'll go right on rehearsing it forever in some asylum , and then everybody will hear it till they are sick and tired of it , and the curtain wo n't rise on the real show . Said he : ` Well , so you say , so you say , so you say ! '