about noon
said La Nouë . `` I think it is the better suggestion . Let it hold . I sleep to-night at my good friend Mazeau 's , '' the king answered , turning to the person he named ; `` and leave to-morrow about noon by St. Martin 's gate . That is understood , is it ? Then let it stand so . '' He did not see -- none of them saw -- how the girl in the shadow by the stove started ; nor did they mark how the last trace of colour fled from her cheeks .