two o'clock
Nettie Russell regarded it all as merely another disagreeable duty to be shirked . Nothing troubled her very much . `` You just wait and see how I get out of it , '' she said , as she passed by . At two o'clock the principal came in , and removed even the small pulpit , so that nothing should stand between the shrinking young orators and the keen derisive eyes below . The chapel was a very imposing structure to Bradley . It was square and papered in grey-white with fluted columns of the Corinthian order of architecture , and that touch of history and romance did not fail of its effect on the country boys fresh from the barn-yard and the corn-rows . It added to their fear and self-abasement , as they rolled their slow eyes around and upward .