ten o'clock
In her wakefulness the night was agonizingly long ; for though she was hopeful of the success of the doctor 's plot , she knew that possibly there might have been some fatal hitch . At the breakfast-table , next morning , her father looked almost sick , and Tillie 's heart throbbed with unfilial joy in the significance of this . His manner to her was curt and his face betrayed sullen anger ; he talked but little , and did not once refer to the Board meeting in her presence . It was not until ten o'clock , when he had gone with some of the children to the Evangelical church , that she found her longed-for opportunity to question her stepmother . `` Well , '' she began , with assumed indifference , as she and her mother worked together in the kitchen preparing the big Sunday dinner , `` did they put the teacher out ? '' `` If they put him out ? '' exclaimed Mrs. Getz , slightly roused from her customary apathy .