an hour after noon
Now , just you stir your stumps , Emilet ! ... I am going off to make preparations ! ... I 'll give you ten minutes to make yourself fit to be seen ... it 's we two are to be the undertakers ; and I swear to you , that we will give them no end of trouble to the curiosity mongers at Police Headquarters ! '' On the boulevard du Palais , Jérôme Fandor looked at his watch : it was half an hour after noon . `` The hour for copy ! Courage ! I will go to _ La Capitale _ . ''