about noon
But now , evidently , its master had come back from Pittsburgh , for it was singing lustily , `` That 's why I wish again that I was in Michigan , back on the farm . '' Rose smiled her old wide smile , and cuddled her cheek into the pillow . She was the happiest person in the world . When he called her up the next morning , she asked him to come down to the premises of Dane & Company -LRB- it was a loft on lower Fifth Avenue -RRB- about noon and go out to lunch with her , and she made no secret of her motive in selecting their rendezvous . `` I 'd like to have you see what our place is like ; '' she said , `` though it is n't like anything much just now , between seasons this way . Still you can get an idea . '' He said he would be immensely interested to see the place , and from the cadence of his voice was apparently prepared to let the conversation end there .