noon
He nodded back , and put a finger to his lips . All that afternoon he was so proud , just thinking of Cis threading the crowds with Mr. Perkins at her side . Yet she herself was evidently not impressed by the great compliment the leader had paid her . For the next day she did not invite a similar experience by coming home at noon ; nor the next . In fact , she never again dropped in to see the drill . She had lost interest in it , she told Johnnie -- which was natural enough , seeing that she was a girl . But !