nine o'clock
Miss Margery had her downstairs to tea that evening , and gave her milk toast and pink iced cakes and candy in a Santa Claus box that was to have waited till Christmas . Then she sang Anne 's favorite songs . But the shadow did not lift . Anne kissed her friend good-night and crept away to bed before nine o'clock . An hour later , Miss Dorcas and Miss Margery tiptoed into her room . There she lay , her face swollen with weeping and her breath coming in sobbing gasps . She stirred and crumpled a pillow in her arms , and crooned in her sleep the old lullaby : -- '' ` Honey , honey !