one o’clock
` Val does not like it , ' said her aunt ; ` nor indeed did I at your age ; but one can not be an independent woman without being able to take care of one 's own clothes , so I resolved that these children should learn better than I did . Do you like a take a run with Mysie before dinner ? Or there is the amusing shelf . Books may be taken out after one o'clock , and they must be put back at eight , or they are confiscated for the ensuing day , ' she added , pointing to a paper below where this sentence was written . Dolores was still rather tired , and more inclined to make friends with the books than with the cousins . There were fewer than she expected , and nothing like so many absolute stories as she was used to reading with Maude Sefton . ` Those are such grown-up books , ' she said to Mysie , who came to assist her choice , and pointed to the upper shelves .