midnight
`` Monsieur has bought my picture , '' said Mademoiselle Noémie . `` When it 's finished you 'll carry it to him in a cab . '' `` In a cab ! '' cried M. Nioche ; and he stared , in a bewildered way , as if he had seen the sun rising at midnight . `` Are you the young lady 's father ? '' said Newman . `` I think she said you speak English . ''