noon
This was the question asked by Mrs. Pell at the breakfast table on the morning that Rex was trudging along the dusty road between New York and Philadelphia . `` He did n't say , '' replied Roy . `` He 'll surely be home by lunch , though . Scott is going to West Chester with his mother at noon . '' Lunch hour arrived and still no Reginald . But Mrs. Pell did not worry . He had so many friends in Marley that there were plenty of places where he might have gone from the Bowmans ' .