half past four
Their acting was so spirited that everybody was quite sorry when the short piece was ended , and would have liked certain scenes repeated , had not Miss Morley pointed to her watch and shaken her head emphatically to forbid further encores . Past experience had warned her not to allow one section of the school to monopolize an undue share of the time to the exclusion of others . `` It 's the turn of the Transition now , '' she said . `` We shall only just work through our program by half past four . '' Even the Camellia Buds , though they watched with jaundiced eyes , could not deny that the members of the Starry Circle managed their waxworks very creditably . Elsie indeed , as Madame de Pompadour , was not convincing , but Mabel made a distinguished Sir Walter Raleigh , and Bertha surpassed herself as Queen Elizabeth . The rival sorority , after witnessing this triumph , was more and more thankful to have abandoned the idea of acting an animated toy-shop .