noon
You are very simple , child , if you expect to learn what life is by dancing the German . The first thing we shall hear is , that you are engaged to some young dandy who is after your fortune . Then you will be snuffed out . You will become a fashionable simpleton , who goes to bed at four and gets up at noon . Life , indeed ! '' This cruel insinuation , following so soon upon what I had lately heard , cut like a knife . I answered firmly , -- `` My father has already warned me to be on my guard against insincere persons . ''