eight o'clock
`` You are a brave little girl , '' said her teacher , with a glow of tenderness at her heart and a suspicious moisture in her eyes . `` But '' -- with a resolute straightening of her graceful figure -- `` I am not going to have you left to yourself on this your first evening at Hilton , so come with me to my room and we will have a nice time by ourselves . '' `` Oh , I should like that , '' said Katherine , eagerly , `` if it will not encroach -- '' `` It will not , '' smilingly interposed her new friend , and , slipping an arm around her , she spirited her away to her pleasant room , where they spent a delightful hour together . When the eight o'clock study bell rang , Katherine returned to her own quarters , where she found her roommate already absorbed , apparently , in the preparation of to-morrow 's lessons ; for , as she entered , the girl merely glanced up from her book without speaking , then fastened her eyes again upon the pages before her . Katherine sat down by her own table and soon forgot everything but the work on hand , although , at first , she had experienced a sense of discord and friction in the atmosphere . The hour passed in absolute silence until the next bell rang , when Miss Minot closed her books and abruptly left the room . Katherine was not sorry to be left alone , and bringing forth from her trunk her Bible , `` Science and Health , '' and `` Quarterly , '' began to study her lesson for the coming Sunday .