ten o'clock
Owing to the fervent manner in which each succeeding dance was encored , it was after midnight before the fairy-tale masquerade came to an end and the lords and ladies of fairy lore became everyday boys and girls again ; and went home congratulating themselves on the blessed fact that to-morrow was Saturday and that they could make up lost sleep the next morning . Marjorie Dean , however , was not among the late sleepers . She was up and about the house at her usual hour , for the day held promise of unusual interest . First of all , Constance was coming to see her at ten o'clock . Then too , it was May day , a gloriously sunshiny May day , without the faintest trace of cloud in the deep blue sky . As a third pleasant anticipation , her class had planned a Mayday picnic at a point about two miles up the river . It had been an unusually early spring , and the wild flowers had blossomed in such profusion in the neighboring woods about the town and along the river that the picnic had been planned with a view to spending the day in gathering as many of them as possible .