12:01
Now here 's your ticket , and I 'll talk to Steve as soon as you 're on board the train . That 's her smoke now . '' Betty was conscious that there was something else on her mind , but it was not until she was seated in the train and had had her ticket punched that she remembered . She had thanked kind Dan Gowdy rather incoherently , though as warmly as she could , and had only half heard his explanation that she was taking the 12:01 train up the line instead of the 12:03 down , and it was no wonder that in the bustle of boarding the train she had forgotten her intention of telegraphing to her Uncle Dick . He had given her his address as the Willard Hotel , and the letter was already six days old . `` But I really think in the morning will be better , '' decided Betty , watching the flying landscape . `` He would n't have given me the address if he did n't expect to be there for some time .