Saturday noon
`` I 've knocked about too much , '' she would explain to the Wares , `` not to fight shy of random country cooking . When I find such a born cook as you are -- well I know when I 'm well off . '' Alice flushed with pleased pride at this , and Theron himself felt that their visitor showed great good sense . By Saturday noon , the two women were calling each other by their first names . Theron learned with a certain interest that Sister Soulsby 's Christian name was Candace . It was only natural that he should give even more thought to her than to her quaint and unfamiliar old Ethiopian name . She was undoubtedly a very smart woman .