about noon
`` She seems rather upset like , Luke , '' answered Nancy . `` What has happened to upset her ? '' asked Luke , anxiously . `` I think it 's a letter she got about noon . It was a queer letter , all marked up , as if it had been travelin ' round . I took it in myself , and carried it up to your ma . I stayed to see her open it , for I was kind of curious to know who writ it . ''