noon
`` I shall soon be jealous , _ ma mie _ , but it is a pleasure to see a bright young thing about that can talk with her eyes and not chatter shrilly . _ Mon dieu ! _ what voices most of the wives have , and they are transmitting them to their children . Yes ; we will start at noon , and be gone two days . Destournier has some messages to deliver . Put on thy plainest frock , we are not in sunny France now . '' She had learned that and only dressed up now and then for her husband 's sake , or to please the child .