about noon
`` If you do n't , '' she said , with uplifted eyes , `` I 'll be miserable all the rest of my life . '' `` Bless your little heart , '' the Doctor had answered , kindly ; `` I 'd do ` most anything to keep you from being miserable , even the impossible , which happens to be my specialty . '' She did not quite understand , but sent a burnt offering to the Doctor , in the shape of a chocolate cake . He had returned the compliment by sending her the biggest box of candy she had ever seen , and , as it arrived about noon , she and Romeo had feasted upon it until they could eat no more , and had been uncomfortably ill for two days . Romeo had attributed their misfortune to the candy itself , but Juliet believed that their constitutions had been weakened by their penitential fare , and , as soon as she was able , proved her point by finishing the last sweet morsel without painful results . The Summer waned and tints of palest gold appeared here and there upon the maples . The warm wind had the indefinable freshness of the Autumn sea , blown far inland at dawn .