midday
`` She and him were together all the night , '' panted Long Jean , about noon , in the kitchen of the White Fish . `` What 's that ? '' called Mary McAdam from the closet . Jean repeated her choice morsel , and Mary Terhune , preparing the midday meal , thrilled . `` I was at her borning , '' Jean remarked , `` and I minded then and spoke it open , that she was made of the odds and ends of them who went before her . I 've a notion that the good and evil that might have thinned out over all the Glenn girls must work out thick in Priscilla . '' `` I 'm thinking , '' Mary Terhune broke in , `` that the mingling with such as visits at the Lodge has upset the young miss .