noon
`` The chain was made from the hair you cut from my head when I was so very sick . '' He raised the precious token to his lips , exclaiming with great tenderness , `` I shall wear it as long as I live . What would the world be to me , Cecilia , without your heart and hand ? '' There was a service in the church at ten , and at noon all the really aged people in the parish had been invited to a dinner at Woodlawn . `` I want to have a regular house-warming , '' Mr. Curtis had said to his wife . `` I want to warm it with the good will of all our villagers . '' So it was decided that the old people should come to dinner , the married persons and children to tea , and the young people of both sexes in the evening .