5:48
`` All right ! '' said Kitty , cheerfully , `` I 'll wear a white one , but I think you might be color blind if you really want to help me . '' There was a train from the city at 6:02 , and Tom was not likely to be home on one earlier . At 5:48 Kitty and Billy and Mrs. Fenelby were sitting on the porch , and Bobberts was lying in a tilted-back rocking chair , behaving himself . It was a calm and peaceful suburban scene -- the stillness and the loneliness and the mosquitoes were all present . It was the idle time when no one cares whether time flies or halts . Mrs. Fenelby had the table set and the cold dinner ready ; Kitty was primped ; and Billy should have had nothing in the world to do , but he had been opening and closing his watch every minute for the last half hour .