noon
`` Well , as I know you want to get to Port Vigor I might just as well give you a lift that way , '' I answered . `` Good ! I was hoping you 'd say that . They tell me the stage for Port Vigor does n't leave till noon , and I think it would kill me to hang around here all morning with no books to sell . Once I get on the train I 'll be all right . '' Bock was tied up in a corner of the yard , under the side door of the hotel . I went over to release him while the Professor was putting Peg into harness .