About noon
I declare I did n't think it would crowd us so , when I invited the whole family . But it will be only for a week , and we 'll get along somehow . '' `` Many hands make light work , '' and with much flurrying and scurrying the rooms were made ready for the expected guests . About noon the expressman came , bringing two trunks . '' ` Coming events cast their shadows before , ' '' said Uncle Ted ; `` here come the wardrobes of the Carleton family . '' `` They must have sent them by express yesterday , '' said Aunt Grace ; `` dear me , how forehanded some people are . I wish I had been born that way .