noon
`` Come into the house . I 've got some coffee on the stove for you . I 've been up and down the street waiting for you ever since it began to get light . '' `` Your grandfather wo n't -- '' `` He 's at Uncle Jonas 's ; he wo n't be back till noon . There 's no one here . '' She led him to the front-door , where he stamped and shook himself ; he was snow from head to foot . `` I 'm running away from the good Gomorrah , '' he said , `` but I 've stopped to look back , and I 'm a pretty white pillar . ''