noon
`` No , ma'am , I do n't think he will need them -- now . '' Susan 's eyes flashed ominously . But she hung the clothes back in the closet , picked up the tray , and left the room . Susan 's eyes flashed ominously , indeed , all the rest of the morning , while she was about her work ; and at noon , when she gave the call to dinner , there was a curious metallic incisiveness in her voice , which made the call more strident than usual . It was when Mrs. Colebrook went into the kitchen after dinner for Keith 's tray that she said coldly to Susan : `` Susan , I do n't like that absurd doggerel of yours . '' `` Doggerel ? '' Plainly Susan was genuinely ignorant of what she meant .