noon
`` Do , '' said the Earl . `` Do . If you see Lord Chiltern will you tell him from me that I should be glad to see him before he leaves London . I shall be at home till noon to-morrow . '' Phineas , much astonished at the commission given to him , of course said that he would do as he was desired , and then passed on to Lord Chiltern 's apartments . He found his friend standing in the middle of the room , without coat and waistcoat , with a pair of dumb-bells in his hands . `` When there 's no hunting I 'm driven to this kind of thing , '' said Lord Chiltern .