noon
`` When did you get the letter ? '' `` On the noon mail , of course . '' Esther turned away . She knew very well that there had been no letter from Detroit on the noon mail . But there seemed no use in saying so . These little `` inaccuracies '' were becoming common enough . At first Esther had exposed and laughed at them as merely humorous mistakes ; but that attitude had long been replaced by a cold disgust which did not scruple to call things by their right names .