noon
It is so very warm . '' Mrs. Anderson had a chronic fear of sunstroke . When Randolph went away without his umbrella , as he usually did , being , dearly as he loved his mother , impervious to some of her feminine demands , she watched him , standing in the doorway and shaking her head with a dubious air . That noon she was quite contented , for he did actually carry his umbrella . The sky in the northwest was threatening , although the sun still shone fiercely in the south . She herself sat on the doorstep in the shade , and fairly panted like a corpulent old dog . Her mouth was open and her tongue even lolled a little .