noon
Do you think you and Miss Sen together can manage things ? '' `` We can , surely , '' said Mrs. Murphy . `` She 's as neat and quick a little body as I 've seen this side the Atlantic . '' `` My sister gets here at noon . Good day , '' and the Professor was off , around the house , and across the campus , before Mrs. Murphy could take breath to continue her conversation . In the meantime , Molly was hastening through the pine woods to a grove where she had once seen some holly bushes . In the pocket of her sweater were a pair of scissors and a penknife .