midday
`` I think you must have been having a drop of drink , Roy . I ask what this is to my master , Mr. Verner ? '' `` Drink be bothered ! I 've not had a sup inside my mouth since midday , '' was Roy 's retort . `` This secret has been enough drink for me , and meat , too . You 'll keep counsel , if I tell it you , Mr. Tynn ? Not but what it must soon come out . ''