the three o'clock
morning
Mrs. Herdicker is having the grandest dress made for the party ! She told the girls in the store she had twenty-seven dollars ' worth of jet on it -- just jet alone . '' Here the handsome Miss Morton turned pale with the gravity of the news . `` She told the girls to-day , this very afternoon , that she was going to take the three o'clock morning train right after the party for New York to do her fall buying . Fall buying , indeed ! Fall buying , '' the handsome Miss Morton 's voice thickened and she cried , `` just because papa 's got a little money , she thinks -- '' But what she thought Miss Morton never said , for Mrs. Brotherton , still familiar with the gossip of the schoolhouse , cut in to say : `` And , Martha , what do you think those Copini children say ? They say father 's got their father 's orchestra to practice all the old sentimental music you ever heard of -- ` Silver Threads Among the Gold , ' and ` Do You Love Me , Molly Darling , ' and ` Lorena , ' and ` Robin Adair , ' -- and oh , '' cried Mrs. Brotherton , shaking a hopeless head , `` I do n't know what other silly things . ''