ten o'clock
`` Now , dear , in these two suitcases are your wedding things and your going-away gown . Your dress is in the long box and we will send them all out early in the morning in my car . Matthew will drive us out as soon as we can get ready , '' Bess had said the night before , as she sank on my bed and spread out with fatigue . The next morning it took Annette until ten o'clock and a shower of tears to get Bess and me to sit up and take our coffee . She said the decorators were downstairs beginning on Bess 's wedding decorations and that the sun was shining on my wedding-day . `` Well , I wish it had delayed itself a couple of hours . I 'm too sleepy to get married , '' I grumbled as I sat up to take the tray of coffee on my knees .