noon
He refrained from breaking out with elaborate advertising schemes whereby the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company might grind every other skirt concern to dust . He gave only a startled look when his mother mischievously suggested raspberry as the color for her new autumn suit . Then , quite suddenly , Circumstance caught Emma McChesney in the meshes and , before she had fought her way free , wrought trouble and change upon her . Jock McChesney was seated in the window of his mother 's office at noon of a brilliant autumn day . A little impatient frown was forming between his eyes . He wanted his luncheon . He had called around expressly to take his mother out to luncheon -- always a festive occasion when taken together .