three in the afternoon
The flowers truly had done their best for the occasion , and they seemed to be asking some word of commendation from her . They nodded their dewy heads sleepily as she went on . To-morrow the children would be coming back from Aunt Eliza 's , where they had been sent safely out of the way for a few days , and the last things would arrive , -- and _ he _ would come . Not later than three in the afternoon he ought to arrive , Kate had said , though there was a possibility that he might come in the morning , but Kate was not counting upon it . He was to drive from his home to Schenectady and , leaving his own horse there to rest , come on by coach . Then he and Kate would go back in fine style to Schenectady in a coach and pair , with a colored coachman , and at Schenectady take their own horse and drive on to their home , a long beautiful ride , so thought Marcia half enviously . How beautiful it would be !