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she said to herself , `` whatever Jack may say , when mamma says that I may . '' But Jack said no more on that occasion , nor when his mother , the next day at luncheon , asked Laura what time Miss Bodn expected her , did the young gentleman make any remark . He had evidently forgotten the matter altogether ; and Laura , without further anxiety , set out upon her little journey to McVane Street . Kitty Grant had laughed that morning when Laura had told her that she was to go to Esther 's at four o'clock and leave at six , that she might be in time for her own dinner hour , -- had laughed and said , `` Oh , a regular ` four-to-six , ' -- a sunset tea ! The little Bodn is ` up ' on ` sassiety ' matters , is n't she ? Dear me , I wish _ I _ could go with you , -- I never went to a sunset tea . Could n't you take me along ? ''