noon
I found the man , and yet I had not . Nothing was certain yet . It was now Saturday , and he would not return until Monday night or Tuesday morning , and I must be in London by Wednesday at midnight , or all was lost . Say he came back on Tuesday by noon , there would then be only thirty-six hours left in which to get to London . Thirty-six hours , and many hundreds of dreary , weary miles between ! Or if he should not come at all ! If the Italian were deceiving me !