noon
`` BILIOUS , TOO , '' she whispered to her husband . That evening , during the half-hour preceding dinner , the dining-room was the scene of another struggle , only a little less desperate than that which had been the prelude to lunch , and again an appeal to the head of the house was found necessary . Muscular activity and a liberal imitation of the jeremiads once more subjugated the rebel -- and the same rebellion and its suppression in a like manner took place the following morning before breakfast . But this was Saturday , and , without warning or apparent reason , a remarkable change came about at noon . However , Mr. and Mrs. Schofield were used to inexplicable changes in Penrod , and they missed its significance . When Mrs. Schofield , with dread in her heart , called Penrod into the house `` to take his medicine '' before lunch , he came briskly , and took it like a lamb ! `` Why , Penrod , that 's splendid ! ''