ten o'clock
thought Alice . `` Money is magical ! No wonder we all work for it -- and worship it ! '' The dinner was both early and short , in order that Bertha and the Captain might take the train at ten o'clock . And as they were to have the drawing-room in the sleeping-car -LRB- Ben 's suggestion -RRB- , they went directly to the coach in their party clothes . And so it happened that this little woman , who had never occupied a berth in a Pullman , entered her compartment in the robes of a princess . Alice had suggested a maid , but Bertha would not hear to that ; but she was willing that their coachman should go along to help the Captain .