two o’clock in the afternoon
Then she continued sleepily : `` Every one home used to say I was different from most girls , and Aunt Hannah said I was a tomboy . But I 'm just like all the rest -- just an ordinary girl . '' And with a sigh of contentment she snuggled down in her pillows and dropped off to sleep to dream of the happy year to come . It was two o'clock in the afternoon and the end of the first school day . There had been no lessons to speak of . The new girls had been piloted to the various classrooms , introduced to the teachers , received their books and the general plan for the year had been laid out . At the close of the last period Lois Farwell and Betty Thompson met in the Study Hall corridor , and locking arms , sauntered off in the direction of Freshman Lane .