midday
To-morrow -- '' No more was said of Rose . Martie wondered why she liked to hear Rodney Parker called an ass . Malcolm Monroe came home for luncheon every day except Wednesday , which made Wednesday for the women of the family the easy day of the week . Their midday meal , never elaborate or formal , was less formal and even simpler on this day ; conversation was more free , and time less considered . For several days after Sally 's extraordinary marriage Mrs. Monroe had wept continually , and even her always mild and infrequent attempts at conversation had been silenced . Later , she and Lydia had long and mournful discussions of the event , punctuating them with heavy sighs and uncomprehending shaking of their heads . That a Monroe in her senses could stoop to a Hawkes was a fact that would never cease to puzzle and amaze , and what the town was saying and thinking in the matter was an agonized speculation to Mrs. Monroe and Lydia .