About noon
He used always to pay her in this way . When she counted out her money and found there was too much , she believed the good God had put the money in her box , and would come jubilantly into his room to tell him about it . The child believed blindly in Fortune , and accepted the money as a sign of election ; and for her this money was something quite different to that which she herself had saved . About noon she came to invite him into her room . `` There 's fried herring , Pelle , so you ca n't possibly say no , '' she said persuasively , `` for no Bornholmer could ! Then you need n't go and buy that stuffy food from the hawker , and throw away five and twenty ore . '' She had bought half a score of the fish , and had kept back five for her brothers when they came home .