noon
It amuses me to see him turned into a sort of bachelor again . This is no contradiction ; I mean that here , among his men friends , he shows a new side of himself , seems younger -LRB- to tell the truth -RRB- , and has a kind of gaiety quite different from his good humour at home . You ca n't think how he enjoys a dinner at the club , for instance , quite in a boyish way ; and then he comes back with all sorts of stories and bits of character and I do n't know what ; we forget the time , and sit talking till I dare n't tell you when . But I am doing the same thing now , for it is half-past twelve -LRB- noon -RRB- , and I have promised to lunch with Sibyl at half-past one . Her flat is just finished , and looks very pretty indeed . A thousand kisses to my little darling ! Try and make him understand that _ mum-mum _ has not gone for ever . '