about noon
`` About what , Mrs. Davis ? Nothing serious , I hope ; tell me . '' `` I do n't know how serious it is going to be . Johnnie is sick in the next room , taken yesterday ; and about noon to-day Susan had to knock off work and come home . Hester is the only one left , and you know she is but a baby to work . I do n't like to complain of my lot , God knows , but it seems hard if we are all to be taken down . '' `` I hope they will not be sick long .