midday
`` Ah , would n't you like to know ? '' she laughed . `` Well , I wo n't tease you -- two native girls if you want to know , that was all . The rest of the party were having a midday sleep . But I never can sleep at midday . I do n't mind lying in a hammock or a deck-chair , and reading , but I ca n't sleep . One feels so beastly when one wakes up , does n't one ? ''