three o'clock
The other casts brought up nothing whatever . As it happened Mary paid dear for her procrastination . Paula sent her into town one day with a long list of errands , a transparently factitious list , which , taken in connection with an unusual interest she displayed in the item of lunch , made it more than sufficiently plain to Mary that for the day she was n't wanted at Ravinia . She concealed , successfully she thought , the shock she felt at these new tactics of Paula 's , studied the list and said she thought she should be able to return on the three o'clock train . She made a point however of not coming back until the four-fifteen . It was nearly six before she got back to the cottage , but the contented lazy tone in which Paula from up-stairs answered her hail , made it plain that her tardiness had not been remarked . However Paula had spent her day , the upshot of it was satisfactory .