five o'clock
A little later two disconsolate-looking girls took the first afternoon train out to Warwick Hall , and stole up to Lloyd 's room . As Betty was with Miss Chilton , no one knew of their arrival , and they spent several uncomfortable hours agonizing over the question of what they should say when they were called to account . They decided at last that they would give no more information about Maud than that a distant relative had called for her . At five o'clock , Miss Chilton reached the ticket-office with her little brood , and found Lloyd 's card with the words `` gone on '' scribbled in one corner . Lloyd and Gay , watching at the window for their arrival , saw with sinking hearts that Maud was not with them . They hoped that she would come on the same train , and would be forced to make her own explanations . But they were not called upon to explain her disappearance .