about noon
`` In a very short time Anita appeared in a neat dress of coarse blue stuff , a little short in the skirts , with a white apron over it . '' ` Come , now , ' said she , gayly , ` let us go into the kitchen and see what we shall have for dinner . Shall it be dinner or lunch ? Cotters dine about noon . ' '' ` Oh , make it lunch , ' said I. ` I am hungry , and I do not want to wait to get up a dinner . ' Anita agreed to this , and we went to work to take the lid off a hamper which she told me had been packed by Mrs. Parker and contained everything we should want for several days . '' ` Besides , ' she said , ` that widow woman has left no end of things , all in boxes and cans , labelled .