noontimes

Updated: May 19, 2025

Meeting only indifferent faces at their house those of the Corbelles, and Musadieu oftener he fancied himself almost alone in the world with them; and as he now seldom saw the Duchess and the Marquis, for whom the morning and noontimes were reserved, he wished to forget them, suspecting that the marriage had been indefinitely postponed.

Guy de Maupassant - Strong as Death