about noon
But because Sharlee had known Queed well as a man who loved truth , because the very thing that she had seen and most admired in him from the beginning was an unflinching honesty of intellect and character , because of the remembrance of his face as she had last seen it : a tiny corner of her mind , in defiance of all reason , revolted against this condemnation and refused to shut tight against him . All morning she sat at her work , torn by anxiety , hoping every moment that her telephone might ring with some unthought-of explanation , which would leave her with nothing worse upon her mind than the dead reformatory . But though the telephone rang often , it was never for this . * * * * * Sitting in a corner of the House gallery , about noon , Mr. Dayne saw the reformatory bill , which he himself had written , called up out of order and snowed under . The only speech was made by the Solon who had the bill called up , a familiar organization wheelhorse , named Meachy T. Bangor , who quoted with unconcealed triumph from the morning 's _ Post _ , wholly ignoring all the careful safeguards and tearing out of the context only such portions as suited his humor and his need . Mr. Bangor pointed out that , inasmuch as the `` acknowledged organ '' of the State Department of Charities now at length `` confessed '' that the reformatory had better wait two years , there were no longer two sides to the question . Many of the gentleman 's hearers appeared to agree with him .