noon
She was n't one to be fooled . But Joshua hoped the rest of the personnel were not so perceptive . The engineers and the draftsmen particularly . They could all walk out at noon and be working somewhere else by one o'clock , what with the huge current industrial demand . He walked again to the window ; an old man ; bone-weary , with the weight of his sixty-odd years bending his shoulders like a brick-carrier 's hod . '' _ Then I 'll go to the bank and get some more . _ '' He had n't even fooled himself this time .