six o'clock
`` Then , I 'll be there , '' he said , with a smile . `` Grace , Grace , do wake up ! '' Betty looked at her sleeping chum in absolute amazement . How could anybody sleep so soundly on this , the day of days , when one should have been awake at six o'clock thinking over the delights in store ! Grace had come over the night before to talk over some minor details of the outing , bringing with her a new and , she declared , a specially delicious brand of chocolates . It had been so late when she had started to leave that she had been prevailed upon to spend the night with Betty . And so it was that on that eventful morning she lay slumbering peacefully in the Little Captain 's bed , defying all that impatient young person 's efforts to rouse her .