one o'clock
Mollie shook her head . Of course she could not borrow Harriet 's gowns . And , though Harriet was trying to comfort her , her tone showed very plainly that she had noticed the slimness of the Thurston girls ' preparations in the matter of wardrobe for several weeks of gayety in Washington . At a little before one o'clock the `` Automobile Girls '' and Harriet were ushered into the reception room of the Chinese Embassy by a grave Chinese servant clad in immaculate white and wearing his long pig-tail curled on top of his head . The minister and his wife came forward . Lady Tu wore a dress of heavy Chinese embroidery with a long skirt and a short full coat . Her hair was inky black and built out on each side of her head .