About
noon
There was fresh food for suspicion in Thora Fae being allowed to pass out of life just at this time , with none but her husband and daughter near , and without the consolation of religious rites . Peter asked Margaret angrily , why she had neglected to send for friends and for the minister ? `` Mother was no worse when thou went to the store this morning . About noon she fell asleep , and knew nothing afterward . It would have been cruel to disturb her . '' But in her own heart Margaret was conscious that under any circumstances she would have shrunk from bringing strangers into the house . Since Jan 's disappearance , she had been but once to kirk , for that once had been an ordeal most painful and humiliating .