Four o'clock
Cally , not feeling nappy , sat in the library and wrote to her lover the last letter but one she would write before seeing him in New York . Her eager pen flew : but so did the minutes also , or did the impetuous Avery anticipate the moment of his engagement ? His tender ring broke unexpectedly across her betrothal thoughts , and Cally returned to earth with a start ... Good _ heavens ! _ Four o'clock already ! -- and she with twenty minutes ' getting ready to do ! She caught up the pages of the unfinished letter , and skipped for the stairs . In the hall there was unbroken quiet , with no sound of a servant coming .