noon
They 'll only laugh at you . Now you will have to excuse me -- the market 's kiting , and I 've got to watch it . Give my love to Ruth . Your aunt and I will be out on the noon train for the funeral . Good-by . '' It was what he had expected . He would , perhaps , have stood a better chance if he had read him Peter 's encouraging letter of the director 's opinion of his Cumberland property , and he might also have brought him up standing -LRB- and gone away with the check in his pocket -RRB- if he had told him that the money was to save his own wife 's daughter and grandchild from disgrace -- but that secret was not his .