noon
`` We can hardly talk about it here . '' `` Shall we go to White 's ? '' `` I have just left it , and , between ourselves , I would rather we should be more alone . ` Tis as warm as noon . Let us cross the street and get into St. James ' Place . That is always my idea of solitude . '' So they crossed the street , and , at the corner of St. James ' Place , met several gentlemen who had just come out of Brookes ' Club-house .