two o'clock
The after-dinner half-hour of rest had been a time when the crew of the `` Jolly Susan '' had shut their door on the outside world and had taken their ease . Visiting without permission at this hour was not usually allowed , but Catherine was often quite willing that Judith and Nancy should be in each other 's rooms , for they could talk quite quietly and made no disturbance . Now Judith could hear Nancy in Sally 's room , and this was more than she could bear . Instead of coming up to her room directly after lunch , she asked to have a practising period put on her time-table from two to two-thirty , and the odd fifteen minutes before the two o'clock bell rang , which was legitimate time for visiting , she was spending in other girls ' rooms ; in fact Judith was beginning to find out that there were other interesting and lovable girls in the school besides those select few in the `` Jolly Susan . '' There was Rosamond , for instance , whom Judith had at first regarded with mild contempt because she was greedy , but Rosamond , she found out , was aware of her besetting sin and this Lenten season was disciplining herself strictly , and no one could be more sympathetic if one were in trouble than the same Rosamond ; and there was Joyce Hewson whom Judith had thought proud , but who seemed unapproachable because she was really shy and very conscious of her unusual height ; and then there was Florence Newman who had seemed at the beginning of the term so unresponsive and dull . Florence and Josephine had become friends , drawn together by love for their far-away Western homes , and dropping into Florence 's room one day with Josephine , Judith had been entranced by the tales of mountain climbing and hunting which Florence had to tell . Florence had scarcely seen a girl of her own age until she dropped suddenly into the hurly-burly of York Hill , and it was no wonder that a painful shyness had made her seem ungracious and almost rude .