noon
`` Mother ! '' said Ralph , thickly . Like a hurt child , he went to her , and sobbed his heart out , in the shelter of her arms . Undine Finds Her Soul The year was at its noon . Every rose-bush was glorious with bloom , and even the old climbing rose which clung , in its decay , to Miss Mehitable 's porch railing had put forth a few fragrant blossoms . Soon after Araminta had been carried back home , she discovered that she had changed since she went away . Aunt Hitty no longer seemed infallible .