five o'clock
Immediately after the cake and tea were finished , Jeb and Sary started away to hunt the ring ; but many were the admonitions sent after them as they left the door , to be on hand at the railway terminal to see Polly and her friends off for New York . Mrs. Brewster and her husband cleared away the remains of the luncheon while Mrs. Stewart and Anne completed their packing and dressed for the long trip to the East . Everything in connection with the lease and the inventory of furniture had been attended to before this day , so there were really no errands or work left to be done at the last . Finally Mrs. Stewart locked the door and gave the key to a next-door neighbor who had offered to keep it until the tenant called for it ; then good-bys were said to the congregated friends of Anne and her mother 's , and at last the party started for the station where the New York train was scheduled to leave at five o'clock . `` Dear me , I do hope Sary and Jeb will be there on time , '' sighed Mrs. Brewster , with a worried frown . `` Do n't worry about them , Mah , because I 'll say they have been waiting for us this last hour , '' laughed Sam Brewster . `` Sary would n't give Jeb a moment 's peace until she got that ring , '' added Anne Stewart , laughingly , `` and once she had it she would never give him another moment 's peace until she had shown it to every one of us ! ''