In Noon, Norris writes an autobiographical sketch of her childhood, which involved a change in the family's financial circumstances. From Chapter I: We cooked, cleaned, labored, worried, planned, we wept and laughed, we groaned and we sang-for we never despaired. All this was but a passing phase; we will certainly laugh at this someday, we all said buoyantly, laughing even then.
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