two
o’clock
Mrs. Dawson approached the window , but without haste ; and in no wise sharing her friend 's excitement , gave utterance to her calm opinion . `` They 've made it up , I 'll bet you what you want . '' Surprise seemed for the moment to have deprived Mrs. Worthington of further ability to proceed with her toilet , for she had fallen into a chair as limply as her starched condition would permit , her face full of speculation . `` See here , Belle Worthington , if we 've got to be at the ' Lympic at two o'clock , you 'd better be getting a move on yourself . '' `` Yes , I know ; but I declare , you might knock me down with a feather . '' A highly overwrought figure of speech on the part of Mrs. Worthington , seeing that the feather which would have prostrated her must have met a resistance of some one hundred and seventy-five pounds of solid avoirdupois . `` After all she said about him , too ! ''