one o'clock
`` No , ma'am , we 'll come , but , '' -- Bella hesitated , wanting to say something , yet hardly knowing how to -- `` but if you do n't want to go back , and -- and if you like to take them , we 'll trust -- I mean , next week will do . '' It was out at last , amid a great deal of blushing . The lady smiled . `` Well , that is very thoughtful of you , and if you are sure you do n't mind trusting me I shall be much obliged to you , for I have to be at my mother 's house at one o'clock , and I think it must be that now . Stella , darling , you would like to carry the flowers , would n't you ? That 's it . Then I owe you fourpence for two twopenny bunches .