one o'clock
None of this talk , however , was heard by the `` soreheads . '' Whenever any of these went near the other groups the talk ceased instantly . There was no comfort in the yard , that morning , for a `` sorehead . '' When school let out that afternoon , at one o'clock , Bayliss , Fremont , Dodge and their kind scurried off fast . No one offered to stop them . These `` exclusive '' young men could not get away from the fact that exclusion was freely accorded them . Fred Ripley , as had been his wont in other years when he was a freshman , walked homeward with Clara Deane .