three o'clock
While Margaret was cultivating the intellectual side of the school , Kirsty was carefully attending to her duties as Games Captain . Her work among the juniors prospered exceedingly . They were taking to hockey with wild enthusiasm and gave evidence of considerable promise . As most of them were free at three o'clock , they got the chance of playing almost every day . Kirsty was extremely anxious that these practices should be properly supervised . She was too busy herself to take them personally , so she was obliged to delegate the work to anybody who had the spare time . `` The girls I want most are all at classes or music lessons , '' she lamented .