midday
`` You savee , John ? '' said I , showing him one of the canvasbacks , and he remarked mildly , `` All litee . '' If anything , his lunch was better than his breakfast , and when I saw him take Jimmy 's funny little turtle from him and examine it with appraising eye , I felt fairly well convinced that we should not suffer at the dinner hour . But though a certain gaiety now came to others of the party as we sat about our midday meal , warm now and well fed , and although the boys excitedly made plans about putting up the tent and furnishing it and going into camp for the winter , I could not share their eagerness . There was one other reticent figure at our fireside . Helena sat silent , the head of Partial in her lap . I felt resentment that she should steal from me even my dog .