noon
Miss Milligan was blunt and noisy , rapid and inaccurate . It would be just as well for O'Mally to work with a coarse instrument for a time ; he would be more appreciative , perhaps , of certain qualities to which he had seemed insensible of late . Ardessa was to leave for East Hampton on Sunday , and she spent Saturday morning instructing her substitute as to the state of the correspondence . At noon O'Mally burst into her room . All the morning he had been closeted with a new writer of mystery-stories just over from England . `` Can you stay and take my letters this afternoon , Miss Devine ? You 're not leaving until to-morrow . ''