twenty minutes
to eight
Once she remarked : -- `` I do n't see the good of getting nutty over a highball . '' Seeing that Janet was not to be led into controversy , she grew morose . Breakfast in Fillmore Street , never a lively meal , was more dismal than usual that morning , eaten to the accompaniment of slopping water from the roofs on the pavement of the passage . The indisposition of Lise passed unobserved by both Hannah and Edward ; and at twenty minutes to eight the two girls , with rubbers and umbrellas , left the house together , though it was Janet 's custom to depart earlier , since she had farther to go . Lise , suspicious , maintained an obstinate silence , keeping close to the curb . They reached the corner by the provision shop with the pink and orange chromos of jellies in the window . `` Lise , has anything happened to you ? ''