seven o'clock
The dance was to be held on the Friday evening of the following week , and on the Saturday morning after she would be on her way to Oakdale . How long and yet how short the days seemed that lay between her and home . Long because of her impatience to see her father and mother , short because of the multifold details to be attended to in Harlowe House . `` I 'm so tired , '' she sighed when , at seven o'clock on Friday evening , she saw her trunk and Emma 's safely in the hands of the expressman . `` Thank goodness our packing is done and gone and out of the way . Let 's do recreation stunts to-night , Emma . Suppose we call upon Kathleen and Patience .