about two o’clock
When he came down he was somewhat ruffled . `` He would n't open the door , '' he reported , `` and when I told him it was meal time , he said he was n't hungry , and he did n't give a whoop about the rest of us . He had asked us here to dinner ; he had n't proposed to adopt us . '' So we finally ordered luncheon ourselves , and about two o'clock Jim came downstairs sheepishly , and ate what was left . Anne declared that Bella had been scolding him in the upper hall , but I doubted it . She was never seen to speak to him unnecessarily . The excitement of the escape over , Mr. Harbison and I remained on terms of armed neutrality .