one o'clock
`` Likely as not Mis ' Rose will give her a cooky or something , '' Aunt Maria had whispered to Mrs. Lennox . So when noon came the two women pictured Fidelia sitting perched upon a stool in the store , being fed with candy and cookies , and made much of , or even eating dinner with the Rose family . `` Mis ' Rose made so much of her when you took her there before that I should n't wonder a mite if she 'd kept her to dinner , '' said Aunt Maria . She promulgated this theory the more strenuously when one o'clock came and Fidelia had not appeared . `` Of course that 's what 't is , '' she kept repeating . `` It would take 'em a good hour to eat dinner . I should n't be a bit surprised if she did n't get here before two o'clock .