nearly three
o'clock
Madame and Cousin Kate did not come home to lunch . She had been told that she must not go to see Jules until afternoon , and the doors of the room where the Christmas tree was kept had all been carefully locked . She thought that the morning never would pass . It was nearly three o'clock when she started over to see Jules . To her great surprise , as she ran lightly up the stairs to his room , she saw her Cousin Kate hurrying across the upper hall , with a pile of rose-colored silk curtains in her arms . Jules tried to raise himself up in bed as Joyce entered , forgetting all about his broken leg in his eagerness to tell the news . `` Oh , what do you think ! ''