noon
The motherly woman took the ever-present `` telescope , '' and setting it down in a corner of the pleasant room , directed Dagmar to a chair near the little stove , in which a small light glowed , quite suitably opposed to the chill of early spring . `` Just sit down and I 'll get you a bite . Of course you are hungry . '' `` Not very , '' gulped the girl , who had not tasted food since she snapped the cover on her lunch box that eventful noon day , when the girl , having agreed with Tessie to leave Milltown , had eaten the dark bread and bologna , for what she supposed would be the last time . So Dagmar was hungry , although her emotion for the time was choking her , and hiding the pangs of actual hunger . `` All the same tea tastes good when we use up nerves , '' insisted the woman , leaving the room , and presently clicking dishes and utensils in the kitchen . Left alone for a moment Dagmar recovered her composure and glanced about the room .