midday
`` Yes 'm , '' replied Hepsey , apparently unmoved . `` What time do you want dinner ? '' `` At six o'clock -- luncheon at half past one . '' Hepsey was puzzled , but in a few moments she understood that dinner was to be served at night and supper at midday . Breakfast had already been moved forward an hour and a half , and stranger things might happen at any minute . Ruth had several other reforms in mind , but deemed it best to wait . After breakfast , she remembered the lamp in the window and went up to put it out .