noon
Even he noticed it , so it must have been pretty bad . He said her eyes got so big it made him think of the times she used to imitate the wolf in Red Riding-Hood and scare us ` most to death when we were young . When Billy told me that , I saw that perhaps we should n't have told Peggy , so the next day I went over to Lorraine 's again to ask her what she thought about it . I stopped at noon on my way home from school , and I did n't ring the bell , because I never do . I walked right in as usual , falling over the books and teacups and magazines on the floor , and I found Lorraine sitting at the tea-table with her head down among the little cakes and bits of toast left over from the afternoon before . She did n't look up , so I knew she had n't heard me , and I saw her shoulders shake , and then I knew that she was crying . I had never seen Lorraine cry before , and I felt dreadfully , but I did n't know just what to do or what to say , and while I stood staring at her I noticed that there was a photograph on the table with a lot of faded flowers .