three o'clock
After breakfast she accepted the offer of her hostess to go up stairs and lie down till the cars were ready ; and there got some real and much needed refreshment of sleep and rest . It lasted longer than she bad counted upon . For the cars were not ready at eleven o'clock ; the snow last night had occasioned some perplexing delays . It was not till near three o'clock that the often-despatched messenger to the dépôt brought back word that they might go as soon as they pleased . It pleased Mrs. Renney to be in a great hurry , for her baggage was in the cars she said , and it would be dreadful if she and it went different ways ; so Fleda and her companion hastened down to the station house and choose their places some time before anybody else thought of coming . They had a long , very tiresome waiting to go through , and room for some uneasy speculations about being belated and a night journey . But Fleda was stronger now , and bore it all with her usual patient submission .