noon
`` I will not listen to you , '' the old man growled . `` But I shall speak whether you listen or not . Remember , I am not a man to be fooled by talk . I shall be here at noon and lay before you a scheme perhaps a little more practicable than the last one . '' And with that he reached for some matches , turned upon his heel , and rejoined the man against whom he had warned Enid -- the only man in the world whom he feared . Before they rose Weirmarsh had ingratiated himself with his enemy . So clever was he that Fetherston , in ignorance as to whom his fellow-guest really was , save that he was a member of the medical profession , was actually congratulating himself that he had now met a man after his own heart .