noon
She felt a sense of triumph , of daring , which exhilarated her . She adored her father , and how cleverly she had managed this coming back . How impossible she had made it for any one to gainsay her ! After breakfast her father went out , telling her he should be home by noon , and she busied herself about the house . She was an absolute novice about such work , but she found in it a charm of novelty , and she developed a handiness which filled her with renewed triumph . She kept considering what would her father have done if she had not returned . `` He would have had no supper when he came home last night , '' Charlotte said -- `` no supper , for he evidently was not going to the inn , and the fire was out .