noon
`` Alas ! '' said Rodolphe , `` I have not been taking anything at all . '' And he left his friend on the banks of the Red Sea . From noon to four o'clock Rodolphe successively steered for every house of his acquaintance . He went through the forty eight districts of Paris , and covered about eight leagues , but without any success . The influence of the 15th of April made itself feel with equal severity everywhere . However , dinner time was drawing near .