noon
Elnora caught the infection . She would see the Bird Woman at noon . Algebra came first , and that professor was kind . Perhaps she could slip to the superintendent and ask him for a book for the next lesson , and at noon -- `` Oh , dear Lord make it come true , '' prayed Elnora , at noon possibly she could sell some of those wonderful shining-winged things she had been collecting all her life around the outskirts of the Limberlost . As she went down the long hall she noticed the professor of mathematics standing in the door of his recitation room . When she passed him he smiled and spoke to her . `` I have been watching for you , '' he said , and Elnora stopped bewildered .