nine o'clock
`` Carver will bring me some fruit , '' persisted Priscilla , `` and you ca n't see a thing from the window . Oh , please , Miss Webster ! I just ca n't eat when I have this queer feeling inside of me ! '' So Priscilla had been left in peace , much against the better judgment of the chaperone ; and now at nine o'clock , the three Vigilantes with Aunt Nan , Jack Williams and Carver Standish III viewed Virginia 's country together and all for the first time . The picture which Virginia was at that very moment painting for Donald was very accurate -- even to detail . Aunt Nan , eager that no one should miss a thing , kept pointing out this and that feature of interest -- the strange , new flowers by the track , the occasional log houses , the irrigation ditches , so new to them all . Vivian sat quietly in one corner -- her eyes big , round , almost frightened .