about midday
`` You may be right about Madame Sarcus ; she does n't paint before the glass , '' retorted Rigou , who was always disgusted by the exhibition of the Cochet 's ancient charms . Madame Soudry , who thought she used only a `` suspicion '' of rouge , did not perceive the sarcasm and hastened to say : -- `` Is it possible that women paint ? '' `` Now , Lupin , '' said Rigou , without replying to this naivete , `` go over to Gaubertin 's to-morrow morning . Tell him that my fellow-mayor and I '' -LRB- striking Soudry on the thigh -RRB- `` will break bread with him at breakfast somewhere about midday . Tell him everything , so that we may all have thought it over before we meet , for now 's the time to make an end of that damned Shopman . As I drove over here I came to the conclusion it would be best to get up a quarrel between the courts and him , so that the Keeper of the Seals would be wary of making the changes he may ask in their members . '' `` Bravo for the son of the Church ! ''