midday
`` I hardly ever do . He is not the sort of person to merely flit through one 's mind and so I have no time . Look . I had eleven letters this morning and there were also five telegrams before midday , which have tangled up everything . I am quite frightened . '' And she explained to me that one of them -- the long one on the top of the pile , on the table over there -- seemed to contain ugly inferences directed at herself in a menacing way . She begged me to read it and see what I could make of it .