About noon
Who knows if it is not better that we should send him to foreign parts again for a short time ? Put by your helmet and armour ; your fight at breakfast time will not have spoiled your appetite for mid-day 's meal . Seat yourself beside us . About noon I expect the guardian , who is to have charge of you in your confinement ; until then , let 's be cheerful . '' `` That 's a proposition we can readily satisfy , '' cried Breitenstein . `` Dinner is ready , gentlemen : you and I have not dined together , Albert , since that day in the townhall of Ulm . Come , and we 'll make up for lost time . ''