half past one
There was also a hamper containing extra clothes for Aunt Betty , Dorothy and Molly . It was two sleepy-eyed girls who came slowly down the back stairway to eat hominy , biscuits and coffee , prepared by Chloe and Dinah in the big kitchen -- sleepy-eyed , because the chums had lain awake more than half the night talking over old times . Molly 's trip to California had been told of to the most minute detail , and at the end of the discourse Dorothy had started on her adventures at Oak Knowe . Then to sleep at half past one , to rise at four ! It was no wonder Dorothy said , as they entered the kitchen : `` I feel like the last rose of summer . The next time you keep me awake till nearly morning , Molly Breckenridge , I 'm going to be revenged . '' `` The same to you , Dorothy Calvert , '' was Molly 's retort .