noon
`` Yes , '' agreed Clementine ; `` and then , Patty , when you 're in Paris you can throw away all these New York cards and fill it up with Paris views and bring it home and give it back to me . '' `` I certainly will , Clem ; that 's a first-rate idea . '' Mary Sargent brought a French phrase book . It was entitled `` French Before Breakfast , '' and as Mary explained that the French people never had breakfast until noon , Patty would have ample time to study it . Patty accepted the little book with many thanks and promised Mary she would never eat breakfast , at noon or any other hour , until she had thoroughly mastered at least one of the phrases . Of course all were agreed that Patty must have a farewell party of some sort ; and as Nan dearly loved elaborate affairs , she had decided that it should be an Aquatic Party . Patty frankly confessed her ignorance as to what an Aquatic Party might be , whereupon Nan informed her that she had only to wait until the occasion itself to find out .