noon
Elizabeth gave Ruth and baby Hester their breakfast . Then Betty came down , and insisted upon getting the next breakfast while Mrs. Manning hung up her first clothes . She had been scolding to Betty about people having no thought or care as to how they put back the work with their late breakfast . But when Betty cooked and served it , and insisted upon washing up the dishes ; and Doris amused the baby , who was not well , and helped Ruth shell the pease for dinner ; when the washing and churning were out of the way long before noon , and Elizabeth was folding down the clothes for ironing while Sarah and her mother prepared the dinner and sent it out to the men -- the child could n't see that things were at all behindhand . Sarah and Elizabeth ironed in the afternoon . Mrs. Manning brought out her sewing and Betty helped on some frocks for the children . Two old neighbors came in to supper , bringing two little girls who were wonderfully attracted by Doris and delighted to be amused in quite a new fashion .