About noon
For the folded garments were all by themselves in the bedroom bureau , and it was true that the women in this region had forethought for a set to be buried in . When this was over and before the coming of the other man who was to have rights over Tira 's body , Mrs. Donnyhill remembered Raven and Nan might not have breakfasted , and gave them bread and strong tea -- brewed over night , it seemed to have been . They ate and drank , and she moved about tucking children 's tyers and sweaters into holes of concealment and making her house fitting for Tira 's majesty , all the time muttering her pleas to God . About noon , when Tira was lying in the front room , in her solitude , no more to be touched until she was put into her coffin , Raven came in from his steady walk up and down before the house and went to Nan , where she sat by the window in the other front room . The strength had gone out of her . She sat up straight and strong , but her lips were ashen . As they confronted each other , each saw chiefly great weariness .