noon
Master Revere did not keep him waiting very long ; he had received too many visitors at unseemly hours to make any delay , and the sun had but just risen when Walter 's mission was accomplished . `` You have come in good time , young sir , '' Master Revere said , when the boy had repeated the message . `` The ship on which the stamp distributor for the Province of New Hampshire sailed from London arrived last evening . I will see him at once , and before noon you shall take to your friends such information as I have to give . In the meanwhile you will eat breakfast , and then my eldest son shall act as host , unless you prefer to sleep , for you have been travelling all night . '' `` I can sleep later , sir ; but now that I am in Boston I would like to see the city . '' `` So you shall .