noon
`` Eat ! You do n't mean to say , Jack Kimball , that you 're going to stop to _ eat _ ? '' `` Well , I guess we are . Have n't had a bite since noon . '' `` Why ca n't you get dinner after you get here ? '' `` It might be more like breakfast than dinner if we waited , '' and Jack laughed . `` No , we 're going to eat here and then we 'll see what we can do .