three o'clock
But since we ca n't go to Saratoga , let 's you and I go to Mayville . It is a city of several hundred inhabitants , six or eight , certainly , I should think ; and we can have an immense amount of fun out of the people and the sights this afternoon , and escape the preaching . I have n't got to write another letter until Monday . Come , shall we take the three o'clock boat ? '' Neither of these young ladies could have told what possible object there could be in leaving the lovely woods in which they were camped and going off to the singularly quiet , uninteresting little village of Mayville , except that it was , as they said , a getting away from the preaching -- though why two young ladies , with first-class modern educations , should find it so important to get themselves away from some of the first speakers in the country they did not stop to explain even to themselves . However , the plan came to Ruth as a relief , and she unhesitatingly agreed to it ; so they went their ways -- Flossy to the afternoon meeting -LRB- since Eurie declared herself so far convalescent as to be entirely able to remain alone -RRB- and the two of the party who had prided themselves up to this time on their superiority of intellect down to the wharf to take the boat for Mayville . The ride thither on the lovely lake was almost enough to excuse them for their folly .