three o'clock
And wear your blessed little pink hat -- '' Mary went upstairs ten minutes later with a singing heart . Let Mamma and her attendant problems arrive tomorrow if she must . Today would be all their own ! She began to dress at three o'clock , as pleasantly excited as a girl . She laid her prettiest white linen gown beside the pink hat on the bed , selected an especially frilled petticoat , was fastidious over white shoes and silken stockings . The big house was very still . Lizzie , hitherto un-compromisingly a cook , had so far unbent this summer as to offer to fill the place of waitress as well as her own .