noon
He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill lunchroom , and invented an errand back to Graham 's office . Anna was there , powdering her nose with the aid of a mirror fastened inside her purse . Joey had adopted Clayton with a sort of fierce passion , hidden behind a pose of patronage . `` He 's all right , '' he would say to the boys gathered at noon in the mill yard . `` He 's kinda short-tempered sometimes , but me , I understand him . And there ai n't many of these here money kings that would sit up in a hospital the way he did with me . '' The mill yard had had quite enough of that night in the hospital .