nine o'clock
There were so many charges to give Betty , who was to keep house for the next week . Nothing was quite ready . Mother fashion , she had counted on doing this and that before she went ; and if Betty could n't get along she must ask Aunt Priscilla to come , just as if Betty had not kept house a whole week last summer . There was advice to father and to Warren , and he was to try to bring Betty home by nine o'clock that evening . What Doris would do in the afternoon , she could n't see . `` Go off with an easy heart , mother , '' said Mr. Leverett ; `` I will come home early this afternoon . '' `` You should have seen me when Jane tied a white sash about my waist .