About noon
He looked long within , then shut it softly and tiptoed out into the open , his eyes shining . `` Jed , '' he said to his foreman , `` you do n't know how it made me feel . To see her lying there so pink and soft and pretty , with her yaller hair all tumbled about and a little smile on her -- there in my old bed , with my old gun hanging over her that way -- By Heaven , Jed , it made me feel almost HOLY ! '' About noon she emerged from the room , fully refreshed and wide awake . She and Susie O'Toole had unpacked at least one of the trunks , and now she stood arrayed in shirtwaist and blue skirt . At once she stepped into the open air and looked about her with considerable curiosity . `` So this is a real cattle ranch , '' was her comment .