seven o'clock
A Hostel Frolic `` The Foursome League , '' which Verity had instituted with her room-mates at the hostel , was kept by them as a solemn compact . They stuck to one another nobly , though often in the teeth of great inconvenience . It generally took three of them to urge Fil through her toilet in the mornings and drag her down to breakfast in time . She was always so terribly sleepy at seven o'clock , and so positive that she could whisk through her dressing in ten minutes , and that it was quite unnecessary to get up so soon : even when the others mercilessly pulled the bed-clothes from her , and pointed to their watches , she would dawdle instead of `` whisking , '' and spend much superfluous time over manicure or dabbing on cucumber cream to improve her complexion . She was so innocent about her little vanities , and conducted them with such child-like complacency , that the girls tolerated them quite good humoredly , and even assisted sometimes . One of them generally volunteered to brush her long flaxen hair , and tie her ribbon , and half out of habit the others would tidy her cubicle , which was apt to be chaotic , and put her things away in her drawers . They did it almost automatically , for they had come to look upon Fil somewhat in the light of a big doll , the exclusive property of `` The Foursome League , '' and to be treated as the mascot of the dormitory .