eight in the evening
His beauty was conventional , but Betty could imagine its potent effect on a girl of Harriet Walker 's temperament and limited experience . But he had appeared to prefer Sally 's society to Harriet 's , and his spirits dropped after her departure . It was only when Harriet offered to read to Mrs. Madison and settled down to three hours ' steady work a day , that Betty allowed herself liberty after the early morning . From five till eight in the evening and for an hour or two before breakfast she roamed the forest or pulled indolently about the lake . The hours suited her , for the hotel people were little given to early rising ; and although they boated industriously by day , they preferred the lower and more fashionable lake , and dined at half-past six . Life with her no longer was a smooth sailing on a summer lake . There was a roar below , as if the lake rested lightly on a subterranean ocean ; and the very pines seemed to have developed a warning note .