noon
She did not answer . `` You will say nothing to him about it , Ma'ame Grandet , till I return , '' said the old man . `` I have to go and straighten the line of my hedge along the high-road . I shall be back at noon , in time for the second breakfast , and then I will talk with my nephew about his affairs . As for you , Mademoiselle Eugenie , if it is for that dandy you are crying , that 's enough , child . He 's going off like a shot to the Indies . You will never see him again . ''