seven o'clock
I wo n't , '' shrieked Bunny , clinging more closely to Frank , and turning her back upon her nurse in a most impertinent manner . `` We shall see if you do not , you bad , naughty child , '' cried Sophie in an angry voice , and running forward she seized the little girl in her arms , and carried her off screaming and kicking into the house . -LSB- Illustration : Chapter decoration . -RSB- A little before seven o'clock that evening the children stood at the drawing-room window . All traces of the recent struggle in the garden had been removed , and in the neat little girl in the dainty cream lace and muslin frock , with its fluttering pink ribbons , few persons would have recognized the small fury that Sophie had carried off wriggling and crying to the nursery a few hours before . But Miss Bunny had already forgotten that such a scene had ever taken place , and was making very merry over a big blue-bottle fly that she and Mervyn were doing their best to catch as it walked up and down the window-pane . Frank Collins sat at the piano playing some very lively tunes , and from time to time Bunny would pause in her pursuit of the fly and dance lightly over the floor in time to the music .