About noon
The best is the greatest economy in the long run , he told himself , and with a lawyer , new-come , appearances count for much in getting clients . Must get the clients , though , to support this sort of thing ! The rest of the morning he spent buying furniture . About noon he walked back to the Bella Union . His horse and buggy were not hitched to the rail , so he concluded Nan had not yet returned for lunch . Mrs. Sherwood , however , was seated in a rocker at the sunny end of the long veranda . She looked most attractive , her small smooth head bent over some sort of fancywork .