eleven o'clock
So were the cakes . '' This silenced Peabody , for he knew that Betty 's uncle sent her money from time to time , and though he fairly writhed to think that she Could spend it so foolishly , he could not interfere . As soon as it was dark the Peabody household retired , to save lighting lamps , and this evening was no exception . Betty learned from a stray question Mrs. Peabody put to Ethan , the hired man , that Bob was not expected home until ten or eleven o'clock . There was no thought of sitting up for him , though Betty knew that in all likelihood he would have had no supper , having no money and knowing no one in Trowbridge . She was not sleepy , and having brushed and braided her hair for the night , she threw her sweater over her dressing gown and sat down at the window of her room , a tin of sardines and a box of crackers in her lap , determined to see to it that Bob had something to eat . There was a full moon , and the road lay like a white ribbon between the silver fields .