noon
`` You are so thin , '' said the mother with a sigh . He was silent . They spoke infrequently , and saw each other very little . In the morning he drank tea in silence , and went off to work ; at noon he came for dinner , a few insignificant remarks were passed at the table , and he again disappeared until the evening . And in the evening , the day 's work ended , he washed himself , took supper , and then fell to his books , and read for a long time . On holidays he left home in the morning and returned late at night . She knew he went to the city and the theater ; but nobody from the city ever came to visit him .