five o'clock
Whether Miss Peters heard or not Katie could not be sure , but she thought she saw a heightened color in the young woman 's face , and was just going to ask her companion how she could be guilty of such rudeness , when she remembered the rule in time , checked herself , and put her finger significantly on her lips . As to Bertie , she stared round the room , working a little now and then , and talking aloud to herself as she could get no one to talk to her . Miss Peters was very indignant ; but thought it best to take no notice just yet ; for , as the girl had said , she was Mr. Sanderson 's daughter , and she did not know just how far it would do to enforce rules in her case . The girls in the rag-room were dismissed at five o'clock , so , as the bindery did not close till six , Katie did not have the company of her brothers on her homeward walk , Bertie taking their place , and talking all the way about the indignity of working in a factory and the hardship of having to work at all . She told about her cousins in the city , who were quite fine ladies , according to Bertie 's account , doing nothing but play on the piano and do fancy-work . They were coming with their mother to make a visit in the summer , and how ashamed she should be to appear before them in the character of a paper-mill girl . The girl talked about her father in anything but a respectful manner , but seemed to find comfort in the thought of her silk dress .