noon
Curiously Rose-Ellen asked her about school . `` No money , no time , no clo'es , '' said Polish Rose . The truck-driver shouted to his people to pile in and the truck went on . By noon the Beechams were seeing their first palm trees and winter flowers . Grandpa and Daddy tried to tell the children about the things they were passing , but the children were too sleepy and sickish to care . Grandma 's mouth was a thin line of pain and the baby wailed until people looked around crossly , though there were other crying babies . The truck reached its destination late on the second evening and piled out its passengers at a grapefruit camp .