eleven o'clock
On the threshold she paused to hurl one contemptuous word over her shoulder : `` Scabs ! '' * * * * * The lunch bell rang , and Patty at her desk in the empty schoolroom heard the girls laughing and talking , as they clattered down the tin-covered back stairs to the dining-room . She was very tired and very hungry . She had had five hours of work since breakfast , with only a glass of milk at eleven o'clock . Even the pleasurable sensation of being abused did not quite offset the pangs of hunger . She listlessly set about learning the morrow 's lesson in French History . It dealt with another martyr .