Eight o'clock
`` DEAR PEGGY : -- Study _ hard _ , please , and get through before this evening . The Snowy Owl is going to give us a Grand Tell about the wedding she has been to , and we both want you to come , too . I 'm going to speak to Miss Russell , but you 'd better ask her , too ; it will be all right , for the Snowy has asked permission , anyhow . Eight o'clock , just after reading ; be sure to come on time ! `` Affectionately , `` BERTHA . '' It was hard to study through that lovely afternoon , when the other girls , or most of them , were out-of-doors , playing tennis or basket-ball , and their voices came in at the window in every tone of joyousness and delight . It was very hard to study the detested rhetoric and history , but Peggy was strong in her good resolve , and bent steadily over her books , trying her very best .