about noon
`` We keep people here -- just for accommodation . There has to be some place in the valley where folks can stop . I ca n't promise that uncle will give you a job , but There 's going to be chicken and dumplings for dinner . And the mail will be in , about noon -- you 'll want to wait for that . '' She was standing just within the screen door , frankly watching him as he came past the house with the horses , and she came out and halted him when she spied the top of the pack . `` You 'd better leave those things here , '' she advised him eagerly . `` I 'll put them in the sitting-room by the piano .