About five o'clock
`` I 've got to attend to some business this afternoon and I 've got to attend to it alone , or I would like very much to have you come along with me . '' `` Oh , never mind , then , '' answered Madge coldly , turning away from David , who took a step toward her retreating figure , then , with a muttered exclamation , sprang into the cart and drove off . As for Madge , she decided never to speak to David again ; he was insufferable . About five o'clock on the same afternoon Madge , Phyllis , Lillian and Miss Betsey were out on the lawn eating watermelon . Eleanor stood at her front window gazing down wistfully at her friends . Miss Jenny Ann was reading to amuse her , but it was really more fun to look down at the girls . Nellie was getting dreadfully tired of being confined to one room , and yet she did not feel well enough to go downstairs .