ten o'clock
Rilla sat limply in her chair like one hypnotized . She knew Susan would stop talking when she was ready to stop and that no earthly power could make her stop any sooner . As a rule , she was very fond of Susan but just now she hated her with a deadly hatred . It was ten o'clock . Ken would soon have to go -- the others would soon be home -- and she had not even had a chance to explain to Ken that Fred Arnold filled no blank in her life nor ever could . Her rainbow castle lay in ruins round her . Kenneth got up at last .