noon
When I came out after my dinner , they were still sitting there , Courtenay yawning , and Tom and Philip wrangling over last night 's play . `` Come , my man of affairs , join us a hand ! '' says the doctor to me . `` I have known the time when you would sit from noon until supper . '' `` I had money then , '' said I. `` And you have a little now , or I am cursed badly mistook . Oons ! what do you fear ? ''