noon
-- ` Will you breakfast with me ? ' continued he . ` Perhaps there will be enough here for two . ' ``` Thanks , ' said I , ` I do not breakfast till noon . ' `` I had scarcely spoken before hurried footsteps sounded from the passage . The stranger stopped at Gobseck 's door and rapped ; there was that in the knock which suggested a man transported with rage . Gobseck reconnoitred him through the grating ; then he opened the door , and in came a man of thirty-five or so , judged harmless apparently in spite of his anger .