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noon
The Old Lady always wore silk from motives of economy . It was much cheaper to wear a silk dress that had belonged to her mother than to buy new print at the store . The Old Lady had plenty of silk dresses which had belonged to her mother . She wore them morning , noon , and night , and Spencervale people considered it an additional evidence of her pride . As for the fashion of them , it was , of course , just because she was too mean to have them made over . They did not dream that the Old Lady never put on one of the silk dresses without agonizing over its unfashionableness , and that even the eyes of Crooked Jack cast on her antique flounces and overskirts was almost more than her feminine vanity could endure . In spite of the fact that the Old Lady had not welcomed the new day , its beauty charmed her when she went out for a walk after her dinner -- or , rather , after her mid-day biscuit .