twelve o'clock
`` Yes , honey , '' murmured Lafe contentedly . `` Now get your fiddle and practice ; after that you c 'n study a while out of that there grammar book . '' The days went on peacefully after the new arrangements for the shortwood . Every other day , at twelve o'clock , one of Theodore King 's cars waited for Jinnie at the head of the path leading into the marsh . When the weather was stormy , Bennett , the chauffeur , took the wood , telling Jinnie to run along home . All this made it possible for Jinnie to study profitably during the warm months , and by the last of August she had mastered many difficult subjects . Lafe helped her when he could , but often shook his head despondently as she sat down beside him on the bench , asking his advice .