four o'clock
`` We 've had enough excitement to-day to last a month , '' said Gladys , as they hastened tack to the house the second time to get the sweater and shoes . `` I 'm all tired out . '' `` So am I , '' said Nyoda . `` We have just time enough to make that four o'clock car , and none to spare , '' said Gladys , as they rode toward town in the street-car . As if everything were conspiring against them to-day , a heavy truck , loaded with boxes , got caught in the car-track right in front of them and blocked traffic for ten minutes . Gladys and Nyoda looked tragically at each other at this delay . Nyoda held up her watch significantly .