noon
Impenetrability of expression is doubtless a valuable attribute to a joss . Otherwise so many josses would not display it . Upon the stony and placid visage of Mr. Greenough , never more joss-like than when , on the morning after Banneker went to The Retreat , he received the resultant note , the perusal thereof produced no effect . Nor was there anything which might justly be called an expression , discernible between Mr. Greenough 's cloven chin-tip and Mr. Greenough 's pale fringe of hair , when , as Banneker entered the office at noon , he called the reporter to him . Banneker 's face , on the contrary , displayed a quite different impression ; that of amiability . `` Nothing in the Eyre story , Mr. Banneker ! '' `` Not a thing . ''