two o'clock exactly
Children , say grace . '' * * * * * It was Wednesday and a half-holiday , and Mrs. Gresley had arranged to take the children in the pony-carriage to be measured for new boots . These expeditions to Westhope were a great event . At two o'clock exactly the three children rushed down-stairs , Regie bearing in his hand his tin money-box , in which a single coin could be heard to leap . Hester produced a bright threepenny-piece for each child , one of which was irretrievably buried in Regie 's money-box , and the other two immediately lost in the mat in the pony-carriage . However , Hester found them , and slipped them inside their white gloves , and the expedition started , accompanied by Boulou , a diminutive yellow-and-white dog of French extraction . Boulou was a well-meaning , kind little soul .