eleven o'clock
`` This will set me all right with Miss Roscoe now , '' she thought . `` She 'll quite forgive me that business about Dick and the sweets on the strength of a ` Rodenhurst Cot ' . I think I 've scored considerably . '' When at eleven o'clock , therefore , Gwen received a summons from the Principal , she was not at all dismayed , and presented herself in the study with a smiling face . To her surprise , however , she was hardly welcomed with the enthusiasm she expected . Miss Roscoe looked grave and annoyed , and greeted her more as if she were a culprit than a praiseworthy collector of money . `` Sit down , Gwen , '' she said coldly , motioning her pupil to a chair near her desk .