midday
`` Come and have tea , then , about four o'clock . The ravens will have fled by then . '' `` The ravens ? '' `` The police , you dear child , and the reporters , and the photographers -- the flock of weird fowl which gathers from all points of the compass when the press gets hold of what is called ` a first-rate story , ' By midday I shall be in the thick of it . But , thank goodness , they will know nothing to draw them your way until the inquest takes place , and not even then if _ I _ can manage it . '' `` Do n't mind me , Mr. Grant . You must not keep anything back on my account .