three o’clock
`` I 'll get it for you if you like and find a laundry bag with a hole in it . '' `` Do , and we 'll love you forever , '' promised Florence , adding over her shoulder as the two girls dashed off down the corridor : `` Be sure there 's plenty of it , we want a long chase . '' Three minutes later , breathless from their race upstairs , Betty and Lois reached Freshman Lane . `` Everybody ready for a paper chase at three o'clock , '' Lois called out ; `` no excuses need be offered for none will be accepted . '' `` Angela and Connie , you lazy ones , that means you , too , come along , '' Betty commanded , bursting into Connie 's room and discovering her curled up comfortably on the bed , while Angela , sitting Turk fashion on the window seat , was devouring crackers and peanut butter sandwiches . Pausing now with one half way to her mouth , she drawled : `` Oh , Betty , you 're so energetic , I do n't want to go , I 'm much too tired . '' She received no sympathy , however ; instead , she was dragged ruthlessly to her feet and admonished : `` Too lazy you mean , and too full of peanut butter ; no , Angela , it is my painful duty to save you from growing hideously fat . ''