five o'clock
During the early part of the afternoon the girls shortened one of Birdie 's dresses and tacked in its folds to fit Nance 's slender figure . Birdie worked in fits and starts ; she listened every time anything stopped in the street below , and made many trips to the window . By and by her easy good humor gave place to irritability . At five o'clock she put on her hat , announcing that she had to go over to the drug store to do some telephoning . `` Lock the door , '' she counseled , `` and if anybody knocks while I 'm gone , do n't answer . '' Nance , left alone , sewed on for a while in a flutter of happy thoughts ; then she got up and turned her chair so she would not have to crane her neck to see the photograph on the dresser . `` The making of an awful pretty girl ! ''