five in the evening
Hilda thought : `` Is she determined not to speak of it unless I do ? '' Immediately Janet was gone , Hilda had run up to the bedroom . She was minded to change the black frock which she had been wearing , and which she hated , and to put on another skirt and bodice that Janet had praised . She longed to beautify herself , and yet she was still hesitating about it at half-past five in the evening as she had hesitated at eight in the morning . In the end she had decided not to change , an account of the rain . But the rain had naught to do with her decision . She would not change , because she was too proud to change .