noon
She hesitated . `` Why , I suppose there 's no harm in it . How could there be ! '' It occurred to her that her husband should have taken lunch with her -- but he was generally so hurried at noon . She told Samuel all about him : he was a little smaller than Samuel , but , oh , MUCH better-looking . He was a book-keeper and not making a lot of money , but they were very happy and expected to be rich within three or four years . Samuel 's grass-widow had been in a quarrelsome mood for three or four weeks , and through contrast , he took an accentuated pleasure in this meeting ; so fresh was she , and earnest , and faintly adventurous .