midday
`` Still I could n't help thinking that I ought to talk to some one about this , '' said Kaisa . `` But to whom ? I felt kind of backward about going to big folk like yourselves -- '' Just then the bell above the stable rang . The midday rest was over . Mother Martha suddenly interrupted the old woman : `` I say , Kaisa , do you think things can ever be right again between Ingmar and Brita ? '' `` What ? '' gasped the old woman in astonishment .