noon
The Little Colonel went dashing around the house , from one room to another , calling out the news in the greatest excitement . `` Have you heard it ? Papa Jack 's comin ' ! Grandfathah is goin ' to stay several weeks longah , but Papa Jack 's comin ' on the noon train to-day ! '' Some one else came on that noon train , some one whom Doctor Fuller met in his buggy and took immediately up to Locust . It was the oculist who had been there before . Lloyd was so excited over her father 's arrival that she scarcely noticed they were in the house , and she never knew when they gravely made their examination of Betty 's eyes and as gravely went away again .