about one o'clock
Just across the aisle was Loretta , who was coming in the evening , and then they would pop corn and make nut-candy . At home there was the beautiful new turkey and unlimited pudding and good cheer , and all disappointment and mystery were done away with . Ann Mary felt as if all her troubles would be followed by thanksgivings . Ann Lizy was invited to spend the afternoon and take tea with her friend Jane Baxter , and she was ready to set forth about one o'clock . That was the fashionable hour for children and their elders to start when they were invited out to spend the afternoon . Ann Lizy had on her best muslin delaine dress , her best embroidered pantalets , her black silk apron , and her flat straw hat with long blue ribbon streamers . She stood in the south room -- the sitting-room -- before her grandmother , who was putting some squares of patchwork , with needle , thread , and scissors , into a green silk bag embroidered with roses in bead-work .