about noon
`` Well , about this ` warning ' ? '' Mrs. Bogardus interrupted . `` Yes ! It was three years ago in May , and I remember it was some such a day as this -- showery and broken overhead , and Mary disappointed me ; but she came about noon , and said she 'd put in half a day anyhow . She got her pail and house-cloths ; but she was n't gone not half an hour when down she come white as a sheet , and her mouth as dry as chalk . She set down all of a shake , and I give her a drink of tea , and she said : ` I would n't go up there again , not for a thousand dollars . ' She unlocked the door , she said , and stepped inside without thinkin ' .