about seven o'clock
Never had such a stir been made about a mere church social in all the annals of the society . Every remotest member was hunted out and persuaded to be present , and Allison agreed to go around in the evening and pick up at least a dozen who had professed their inability to get there alone . So the big blue car was enlisted in Christian Endeavor service , and the young people were as busy and as happy as ever they had been in getting their little new home settled . They drove away about seven o'clock after a hasty supper , with their platters of sandwiches safely guarded on the back seat ; and Julia Cloud watched them , and smiled and was glad . She wondered whether this work would get such a hold upon them that it would last after they started their college work , and fervently hoped that it might , so that there would be another link to bind them to God 's house and His work . She sighed to think how many things there would likely be to draw them away . About ten o'clock Leslie telephoned .