midday
They offended something in her , though she could not tell what . At the noon intermission she did not go home to the tempting dinner smells , but wandered off through the little city park and down to the river , where she sat on the bank and felt very virtuous , and spiritual , and hollow . She was back in her seat when the afternoon service was begun . Some of the more devout members had remained to pray all through the midday . The congregation came straggling in by twos and threes . Many of the women had exchanged the severely corseted discomfort of the morning 's splendor for the comparative ease of second-best silks . Mrs. Brandeis , absent from her business throughout this holy day , came hurrying in at two , to look with a rather anxious eye upon her pale and resolute little daughter .