six o'clock
Jane was condemned to stand in the corner till she had fulfilled all the hours she had wasted in the streets . Jane was terrified . She forgot the disgrace , forgot the lost reward , forgot the scorn the big girls would heap on her when they found she had no money . If she had to stay there till six o'clock Andy would go away without her , and she would have to walk all those long miles back to Rowallan in the dark alone . She begged Miss Courtney to let her go ; she prayed God to soften Miss Courtney 's heart . But it was all in vain . When the other children went home a Bible was put into her hands , and she was told to learn the fifty-first Psalm .