about noon
Even on the following day he persisted in the declaration that it was his duty , as a father and a nobleman , to protect his daughter from further humiliations of this sort . Yet when , on the day of fasting , the invitation to sing came , he permitted Barbara to accept it , because it was the Emperor who summoned her . He had called for her again , and on the way home learned that neither his Majesty nor the regent had been among the listeners , and he had gone to rest like a knight who has been hurled upon the sand . The next morning , after mass , Barbara went to the rehearsal , and returned in a very joyous mood with the tidings that the Emperor wished to hear her about noon . But this time her father wanted to forbid her taking part in the performance , and Wolf had not found it easy to make him understand that this would insult and offend his Majesty . The dispute was by no means ended when the little Maltese summoned her to the New Scales . Wolf accompanied her only to the Haidplatz , for he had been called to the Town Hall on business connected with his inheritance ; but Barbara learned in the room assigned to the musicians that the noon performance had just been countermanded , and no special reason had been given for the change .