noon
`` If you do understand , granny , then it means that everybody needs you , everybody ! '' said Yegor earnestly and solemnly . She looked at him and laughed without saying anything . At noon , calmly and in a businesslike way she put the books around her bosom , and so skillfully and snugly that Yegor announced , smacking his lips with satisfaction : '' _ Sehr gut ! _ as the German says when he has drunk a keg of beer . Literature has not changed you , granny . You still remain the good , tall , portly , elderly woman .