ten o'clock
Hilariously the young people accepted this decree , and Julia was carried home with the Tolands to dinner . Good-hearted Mrs. Toland could be nothing less than kind to any young girl , and Julia 's place at table was next to the kindly old doctor , who only saw an extremely pretty girl , and joked with her , and looked out for her comfort in true fatherly fashion . Julia carried herself with great dignity , said very little , being in truth quite overawed and nervously anxious not to betray herself , and after the first frightened half-hour she enjoyed the adventure thoroughly . The evening rehearsal went much better , a final rehearsal was set for Sunday , and Julia was driven to the ten o'clock boat in the station omnibus , which smelled of leather and wet straw . She sat yawning in the empty ferry building , smiling over her recollection of dinner at the Tolands ' : the laughter , the quarrels , the joyous confusion of voices . Suddenly struck by the deserted silence of the waiting-room , Julia jumped up and went to the ticket office . `` Is n't there a train at 10:03 ? ''