noon
From that time onwards I never broke my fast otherwise than with her . So was it with other rules of intercourse . The doctor was a machine in the ordering of his life . His chocolate at six , his clothes at eight ; he left the house at nine and returned at noon . He left it again at two in the afternoon and returned at nine in the evening ; he supped ; he went to bed on the stroke of ten . Except on Sundays , high festivals , the first , the middle , and the last day of carnival , through all the time of my acquaintance with him , I never knew him break these habits but once , and that was when his mother died at Mestre and he had to attend the funeral . On that occasion he must rise at six , and miss his dinner at noon .