midday
It 's as nice here as it can possibly be anywhere else . I 'd like someone to go in swimming with me . '' `` If it is n't too cold I will , '' cried Dolly , cheerfully . And so , after the midday meal -- two hours afterward , too , for Eleanor Mercer was too wise a Guardian to allow them to run any risk by going into the water before their food had been thoroughly digested -- bathing suits were brought out , and Margery Burton , or Minnehaha , as the one who had proposed the sport , was unanimously elected a committee of one to try the water , and see if it was warm enough for swimming . `` And no tricks , Margery ! '' warned Dolly . `` I know you , and if you found it was cold it would be just like you to pretend it was fine so that we 'd all get in and be as cold as you were yourself ! ''