nine o'clock
All sorts of toilet luxuries were at hand , pretty coloured soaps , loofahs , lavender-water , ammonia , violet powder , violet scent . No wonder poor Dot was in an ecstasy with her surroundings , and that she roamed round her rooms and sighed with happiness because she was here , and with sorrow because she was going away in two days . On Saturday morning she and Alma went shopping . They breakfasted alone at nine o'clock , Alma 's father being in his consulting-room and her mother in bed -LRB- she had been at the theatre on Friday evening and Dot had not even seen her -RRB- . So the two girls lingered over a very dainty breakfast table till nearly ten o'clock , when Alma suggested `` shopping . '' Dot had only two frocks , besides her morning pink print with her . One was a blue muslin that had to last her for next week at school ; the other was a white muslin and her best .