midday
`` It doesna maitter , '' said the one called Ecky . `` He 'll be deid onyway long afore the morn . '' * * * * * Mrs. Morran all forenoon was in a state of un-Sabbatical disquiet . After she had seen Saskia and Dickson start she finished her housewifely duties , took Cousin Eugènie her breakfast , and made preparation for the midday dinner . The invalid in the bed in the parlour was not a repaying subject . Cousin Eugènie belonged to that type of elderly women who , having been spoiled in youth , find the rest of life fall far short of their expectations . Her voice had acquired a perpetual wail , and the corners of what had once been a pretty mouth drooped in an eternal peevishness .