He wished that they would make more noise in the schoolroom.

He upset the church and the orchard and Mrs.Noah.
But the silence after the noise was worse than ever.
Soon Miss Jones took the two girls away to her room to fit on some clothes, an operation which Helen adored and Mary hated.

Jeremy was left alone, and he was, at once, terribly frightened.

He knew that it was of no use to be frightened, and he tried to go on with his game, putting the church with the apple trees around it and the Noah family all sleeping under the trees, but at every moment something compelled him to raise his head and see that no one was there, and he felt so small and so lonely that he would like to have hidden under something.
Then when he thought of his mother all alone and the house so quiet around her and no one able to go to her he felt so miserable that he turned round from his village and stared desolately into the fireplace.

The thought of his new sister came to him, but was dismissed impatiently.