five o'clock
`` Teacher 's pet , '' terrible phrase , was whispered as the class filed out , and when Nancy and Josephine rushed down to the tuck shop for an ice-cream cone they affected not to see Judith , who at first followed disconsolately , and then fled to her room , where , with head buried under the pillows , she sobbed herself into a misery of self-pity and supposed homesickness . Five o'clock bell rang . Horrors ! She had forgotten that Aunt Nell was to be here at five o'clock to take her out for dinner . Aunt Nell would be cross at being kept waiting . Oh , dear ! Oh , dear !