noon
`` I 'm on my way uptown . Give that quarter to Eddie . '' If Miss Winthrop ever had more than a nodding acquaintance with Mr. Pendleton , she gave no indication of that fact when she came in the next morning . With a face as blank as a house closed for the season , she clicked away at her typewriter until noon , and then hurried out to lunch as if that were a purely business transaction also . Don followed a little sooner than usual . The little restaurant was not at all crowded to-day , but she was not there . He waited ten minutes , and as he waited the conviction grew that she did not intend to come .