about noon
She wanted him to be good and scared with that letter . She stayed awake until after midnight , listening for his anxious footsteps ; after midnight she stayed awake to cry over the inhuman way he was treating her , and to wish she was dead , and so forth ; also because the baby woke and wanted his bottle , and she was teaching him to sleep all night without it , and because the baby had a temper just like his father . His father 's temper would have yielded a point or two , the next day , had it been given the least encouragement . For instance , he might have gone over to see Marie before he moved the furniture out of the house , had he not discovered an express wagon standing in front of the door when he went home about noon to see if Marie had come back . Before he had recovered to the point of profane speech , the express man appeared , coming out of the house , bent nearly double under the weight of Marie 's trunk . Behind him in the doorway Bud got a glimpse of Marie 's mother . That settled it .