noon
`` What is the news ? ... '' `` The reading of that new play , or something like that ! '' he replied prying about the room . Janina signed her name to the circular in which the stage-manager summoned the entire company to appear at noon for the reading of Glogowski 's play The Churls . `` A fine bouquet ! '' exclaimed Wicek , eyeing the flowers standing in the vase . `` You might still melt it ... '' `` Speak like a human being ! ''