about noon
She liked her mother . Now for Mexican Town and the Kohlers ! She meant to run in on the old woman without warning , and hug her . SPANISH JOHNNY had no shop of his own , but he kept a table and an order-book in one corner of the drug store where paints and wall-paper were sold , and he was sometimes to be found there for an hour or so about noon . Thea had gone into the drug store to have a friendly chat with the proprietor , who used to lend her books from his shelves . She found Johnny there , trimming rolls of wall-paper for the parlor of Banker Smith 's new house . She sat down on the top of his table and watched him .