about three
o'clock
said Kenneth , who sat on the veranda railing at her other side . Patty 's face took on a comical smile of amusement at these two requests , but she answered both at once by merrily saying : `` Then it all adjusts itself . Mr. and Mrs. Allen and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott shall have the most comfortable carriage , and Marian and Mr. Hepworth and Ken and I will go in the other . '' That seemed to be the , best possible arrangement , and about three o'clock the procession started . Patty and Marian took the back seat of the open carriage , Mr. Hepworth and Kenneth Harper sat facing them . As Marian had already become very much interested in her new fad of authorship , and as under Miss Fischer 's tuition she was rapidly developing into a real little blue-stocking , it is not strange that the conversation turned in that direction . `` I looked in all the bookshops in the city for your latest works , Miss Marian , '' said Mr. Hepworth , `` but they must have been all sold out , for I could n't find any . ''