midday
`` Just what I did . And that being so , I want you to let me out by the back door . '' When he found himself in the street he felt the huge relief of a boy who had emerged with credit from the dentist 's chair . Remembering that there would be no midday dinner for him at home , his first step was to feed heavily at a restaurant . He had , so far as he could see , surmounted all his troubles , his one regret being that he had lost his pack , which contained among other things his _ Izaak Walton _ and his safety razor . He bought another razor and a new Walton , and mounted an electric tram-car _ en route _ for home . Very contented with himself he felt as the car swung across the Clyde bridge .