midday
You have vexed your Grandmother by going out on the very day of your return . '' `` Ah , Tatiana Markovna , '' sighed Paulina Karpovna , `` our ways here are so bourgeois , but in the capital ... '' The old lady 's eyes blazed , as she pointed to the wall where hung the portraits of Raisky 's and the young girls ' parents , and exclaimed : `` There was nothing bourgeois about those , Paulina Karpovna . '' `` Granny , '' said Raisky , `` let us allow one another absolute freedom . I am now making up for my absence at midday , and shall be here all night . But I ca n't tell where I shall dine to-morrow , or where I shall sleep . '' Paulina Karpovna could not refrain from applauding , but his aunt looked at him with amazement , and inquired if he were really a gipsy . `` Monsieur Raisky is a poet , and poets are as free as air , '' remarked Paulina Karpovna .