ten o'clock
Thea nodded good-night to him and settled her head back on her pillow , looking up at the oil lamps . She was going back to Moonstone for her summer vacation , and she was sitting up all night in a day-coach because that seemed such an easy way to save money . At her age discomfort was a small matter , when one made five dollars a day by it . She had confidently expected to sleep after the car got quiet , but in the two chairs behind her were a sick girl and her mother , and the girl had been coughing steadily since ten o'clock . They had come from somewhere in Pennsylvania , and this was their second night on the road . The mother said they were going to Colorado `` for her daughter 's lungs . '' The daughter was a little older than Thea , perhaps nineteen , with patient dark eyes and curly brown hair .