noon
`` You are come at last , M. de Luynes , '' was his greeting . `` I have waited for you this hour past . '' `` How knew you I should ride this way ? '' `` I learnt that you would visit Canaples before noon . Be good enough to quit the road , and pass under those trees with me . I have something to say to you , but it were not well that we should be seen together . '' `` For the sake of your character or mine , M. Malappris ? ''