three o'clock
`` Never mind , '' said Polly , trying to laugh . How she would love to see those new chickens ! `` Polly shall come some other time , '' said Mrs. Henderson , with a kindly smile on her face . `` To-morrow afternoon , Mrs. Pepper , at three o'clock , please let them come over . '' So the next afternoon Joel , with many injunctions to be good , escorted the other two children to Parson Henderson 's , Mrs. Pepper and Polly watching them from the door stone as they trudged off down the road , Phronsie clinging to Joel 's hand , and David on the other side . `` She 's a parson 's wife , now ! '' said Mrs. Pepper for the fiftieth time , as the children turned the bend in the road , and wiping her eyes she went back into the house to pick up her sewing and go to work .