four o'clock
`` I 've got six regular cake customers , and several who promised to buy of me when they needed anything in my line . '' Faith was awake at last . `` Cherry , do you know it 's ` most night , and those girls are n't at home yet ? They said they 'd sure be here by four o'clock , and here 't is five and they have n't come . '' Peace was plainly worried , and with a half-impatient sigh , Cherry closed her fascinating story book and joined her sister watching at the window for the belated girls who had gone in town with Mrs. Grinnell that morning . `` P ` r ` aps the horse run away , '' suggested Allee . `` They were coming back on the car , 'cause Mrs. Grinnell was to stay all night with her relations . ''