nearly three
o'clock
`` I tell you what 't is , I suspect that girl is sewin ' for somebody to earn money . I should think her mother would be ashamed of herself . '' Lois had a half mile to walk , and she stayed awhile at the dressmaker 's to sew . When she started homeward it was nearly three o'clock . It was a beautiful afternoon , the house yards were full of the late summer flowers , the fields were white and gold with arnica and wild-carrot instead of buttercups and daisies , the blackberries were ripe along the road-side , and there were sturdy thickets of weeds picked out with golden buttons of tansy over the stone walls . Lois stepped along lightly . She did not look like the same girl of three months ago .