three o'clock
The next day Mrs. Stokes chaperoned her to Norminster in quest of that blue bonnet . Mrs. Betts went also , and had a world of shopping to help in on behalf of her young mistress . They drove from the station first to the chief tailor 's in High street , the ladies ' habitmaker , then to the fashionable hosier , the fashionable haberdasher . By three o'clock Bessie felt herself flagging . What did she want with so many fine clothes ? she inquired of Mrs. Stokes with an air of appeal . She was learning that to get up only one character in life as a pageant involves weariness , labor , pains , and money .