noon
Boulevard des Italiens in Paris is the most frequented and fashionable . Here are located handsome hotels and cafés , and many of the choicest and most expensive shops . Several of these were visited , and many presents were sent back to the hotel for friends at home . At noon the Harrises took a simple lunch at one of the popular Duval restaurants . While the ladies continued their purchases , Colonel Harris and George visited the Bourse , or exchange , a noble building . Business at this stock exchange opens at twelve o'clock and closes at three o'clock . The loud vociferations of brokers , the quick gestures of excited speculators , and the babel of tongues produced a deafening noise , like that heard at the stock exchange in New York .