about noon
`` Possibly you could sign a sort of receipt and later -- '' Cresswell laughed . `` Well , write one , '' he indulgently assented . And Zora wrote . When Zora left Colonel Cresswell 's about noon that Sunday she knew her work had just begun , and she walked swiftly along the country roads , calling here and there . Would Uncle Isaac help her build a log home ? Would the boys help her some time to clear some swamp land ? Would Rob become a tenant when she asked ?