noon
Aunt Selina , who proved herself a trump in that trying time , waylaid him in the hall , and he said it might be a fractured skull , although it was possibly only concussion . The men spent most of the morning together in the den , with the door shut . Now and then one of them would tiptoe upstairs , ask the nurse how her patient was doing , and creak down again . Just before noon they all went to the roof and examined again the place where he had been found . I know , for I was in the upper hall outside the studio . I stayed there almost all day , and after a while the nurse let me bring her things as she needed them . I do n't know why mother did n't let me study nursing -- I always wanted to do it .