morning, noon
`` Bless your heart , you do n't want to see me beat out of a breakfast , do you ? '' he smiled up at her , feeling all at once an immense desire to pull her head down to him and kiss her . `` But you do n't understand the situation , little girl . Now I 've been eating this confounded bannock '' -- he picked up a chunk of it to demonstrate his point -- `` morning , noon and night until the sight of it makes me almost cry for one of mother 's green cucumber pickles . I 'm tired of it . Bram 's fish is a treat . And this coffee , seeing that you have turned it in that way -- '' She sat opposite him while he ate , and he had the chance of observing her closely while his meal progressed .