midday
`` It is not right that a man of your distinction and wealth and gentle birth should have to go up and down the dockside begging for a ship . '' Simon despised the flattery but could not help agreeing with it . His situation was indeed embarrassing . `` It is past midday , Your Signory , '' Sordello continued . `` Thierry tells me you are staying at the Hare . A good inn , I know it well . You can get a decent noonday meal there for a denier or two .