noon
Householders were kept busy shoveling walks clean and the boys and girls reveled in plenty of coasting . Sarah was invariably late for supper these days and no amount of scolding from Winnie , or pleading from Aunt Trudy , could induce her to desert the hill as long as a single coaster remained to keep her company . Finally Doctor Hugh devised a plan of going around that way before he came home and , if Sarah were there , picking her and the sled up bodily and bestowing them in the car . `` I 'll bet I know something you do n't , '' said Fannie Mears one noon , coming over with Nina Edmonds to sit at the corner table with Rosemary in bland indifference to scowls from Sarah and sighs from Shirley . Fannie Mears and Rosemary were not close friends at all , and the latter was surprised at the overture . But she hospitably swept part of the lunch aside to make room for the visitors and offered them a couple of Winnie 's delicious egg sandwiches . `` Thanks , we have enough , '' said Fannie .