ten o'clock
_ I 'll _ pay the bill . '' But John brought out his shilling . `` I 'll pay for myself , '' he said grimly , `` and I 'll pay you back the penny I owe you , too . '' By ten o'clock Betty had made another shilling , having caught the workers of the city as they were going to their day 's toil . And it must be owned it was a mysterious `` something '' about the child herself that arrested what attention she drew . Perhaps it lay in the fresh rosiness of her face , in the clearness of her sweet eyes , in the brightness of her young hair ; for her courage ebbed away so soon as two or three were gathered around her ; her voice sank to a whisper , she drooped her head , trifled with one wristband or the other , stood first on one foot and then on the other , and displayed the various signs of nervousness Mr. Sharman 's stern eye provoked her to . At eleven o'clock , John , who had made threepence by carrying a bag for a lady , looked Betty up at the appointed corner and proposed lemonade and currant buns , for which she was quite ready .