noon
If Jock was at Pink 's house , he would be well cared for , and Bubble would -- but here Hildegarde started , as a new perplexity arose . Where _ was _ Bubble ? They had actually forgotten the boy in the confusion and trouble of the day . He had not certainly come to the house , as he invariably did ; and the farmer had not spoken of him when he came in at noon . Perhaps Pink was ill , Hilda thought , with fresh alarm . If it should be so , Bubble could not leave her , for Mrs. Chirk was nursing a sick woman two or three miles away , and there were no other neighbors nearer than the farm . `` Oh , my Pink ! ''