midday
It was a community of discouraged agriculturists who had disastrously experimented with dry farming . Mr. Kronborg always drove out one day and back the next , spending the night with one of his parishioners . Often , when the weather was fine , his wife accompanied him . To-day they set out from home after the midday meal , leaving Tillie in charge of the house . Mrs. Kronborg 's maternal feeling was always garnered up in the baby , whoever the baby happened to be . If she had the baby with her , the others could look out for themselves . Thor , of course , was not , accurately speaking , a baby any longer .