the most memorable instance of which had been the time when she had come skipping into the kitchen one afternoon at 3:07 declaring that the nine member board of directors of the citys park commission were coming ( with spouses or guests ) for a six oclock dinner meeting about revamping before skipping back out with a call over her shoulder that she thought that mrs. davis had some sort of a food allergy but she could not remember what it was that the woman could not eat .