seven o'clock
`` How -- _ funny _ ! '' laughed Nancy , reading and re-reading the lines . `` What can it be ? '' If Nancy had asked herself why she sang as she dressed for supper she would have thought , truthfully , that it _ was _ because she was ravenously hungry and B'lindy 's supper smelled very good ; and she chose to wear , from her slender wardrobe , a pink organdy , because it would be cool -- _ not _ that she even dreamed , for a moment , of doing such a silly thing as going to the orchard at seven o'clock , to meet Peter Hyde ! A dozen times , during the evening meal , she resolved that Peter Hyde 's surprise could wait . He presumed , indeed , to think that , after he had absented himself for so long without one little word of explanation , she would go running at the crook of his little finger ! However , she put the pink rose in her belt and occasionally slipped it out to smell of it .