midday
`` To breakfast ! '' I repeated . `` At this hour ? -- you who never breakfast before midday ! '' `` True , _ mon cher _ ; but then you see there are reasons . In the first place , we danced a little too long , and missed the last train , so I was obliged to bring the dear creatures back to Paris in a fiacre . In the second place , the driver was drunk , and the horse was groggy , and the fiacre was in the last stage of dilapidation .