one o'clock
This effusion was the greatest consolation to Cricket . She never showed it to anybody , not even to Eunice , but she often took it out , and read it with much satisfaction , and was almost inclined to begin pining away directly . But on the whole they were very contented , and it was much easier for them than if they had been left at Kayuna . Dinner-time -- dinner was a one o'clock feast , in the summer -- came when they had finished their letters , and had them ready for the mail . `` We 'll have the European letters to-night , '' said Eunice , joyfully , as they sat down to the table . `` Does it seem as if we 'd been here two weeks ? Mamma wo n't seem so far away , when we get the first letters . ''