ten o'clock
I would have all I could do out in the world , and he would have his life full in the wilderness ; but we would be a thousand miles apart . And just here a very strange thing happened . From the weak , cowering , sobbing girl on the bench arose a very determined , red-cheeked , executive young woman who walked over to the nearest ticket-office and demanded of the brisk young clerk what time the different trains left for Tennessee . She found that by going at ten o'clock direct through Cincinnati she could reach Hayesboro two hours ahead of that Belgian emigrant-train that was to go around through Atlanta . Then she went into the dressing-room and got her wad of money out of her stocking , bought a ticket and a Pullman berth , six magazines , some oranges , and a little traveling powder-puff for the end of her red nose , and seated herself in the train before she woke up and found she was I . Then I took a hand and sent Peter a telegram from Philadelphia , though to this day I ca n't remember what it said ; and I settled down to the day and night and part of another day 's journey with peace in my heart and the courage to take whatever was coming to me from Sam . When you are doing a thing you know is wholly wrong it is best to make up your mind beforehand just what kind of a right action you are going to claim it to be .