one o'clock
`` Bit of a cold , '' said the farmer , indistinctly , as he made for the door , still holding his handkerchief to his face . `` Been coming on some time . '' He put on his hat and went out , and Miss Rose , watching him from the window , was not without fears that the joke might prove too much for a man of his habit . She regarded him thoughtfully , and when he returned at one o'clock to dinner , and encountered instead a violent dust-storm which was raging in the house , she noted with pleasure that his sense of humor was more under control . `` Dinner ? '' she said , as he strove to squeeze past the furniture which was piled in the hall . `` We 've got no time to think of dinner , and if we had there 's no place for you to eat it .