noon
I did not wake him ; and I noticed that his clothes and boots were very muddy and wet , for it had rained during the latter part of the night . When we sat down to breakfast , he had not come down-stairs ; and the Old Squire went up to our room . What he learned , or what he said to Halse , we did not ascertain . At noon Gram said that Halse was not well ; but he was at the supper table that night . As I had heard about the melon money I asked him that evening , after we had gone up-stairs , if he could let me have the money which I had borrowed of Theodora and Ellen , for him . I said nothing about my own loan to him , although I wanted the money . He made me no reply ; two or three nights afterwards I mentioned the matter again ; for I felt responsible , after a manner , for the girls ' money .