noon
` I 'm one of the masters at Salem House , ' he said . I made him a bow and felt very much overawed . I was so ashamed to allude to a commonplace thing like my box , to a scholar and a master at Salem House , that we had gone some little distance from the yard before I had the hardihood to mention it . We turned back , on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter ; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon . ` If you please , sir , ' I said , when we had accomplished about the same distance as before , ` is it far ? ' ` It 's down by Blackheath , ' he said . ` Is that far , sir ? '