about noon
`` Have n't looked at a market report for three weeks . '' `` I guess that explains why you do n't understand the situation , then . Well , Snapshot Consolidated opened at 42 . At about noon it began to mount , and it rose peg by peg till it closed at 57-1/2 . Now , what do you think of that ? '' `` I think it 's a warning for discreet men like me to keep away from Snapshot . I have no overweening desire to monkey with Mr. Gould , Thwicket . ''