Sunday before
noon
Betty Mercer came into my room the next morning , Sunday , and said Anne Brown wanted me . I went over at once , and Anne was sitting up in bed , crying . Dal had slipped out of the room at daylight , she said , and had n't come back . He had thought she was asleep , but she was n't , and she knew he was dead , for nothing ever made Dal get up on Sunday before noon . There was no one moving in the house , and I hardly knew what to do . It was Betty who said she would go up and rouse Mr. Harbison and Max , who had taken Jim 's place in the studio . She started out bravely enough , but in a minute we heard her flying back .