five o'clock
` Miss Esther . ' ` Miss Popy . ' Taking up the one addressed to her , and carefully opening it , she took out the pretty sheet with the spray of rosebuds scattered over the page . Across the rosebuds , sprawled in big letters , -- `` Anna rekuests the pleasure of Miss Popy 's compny to tea in the kitchun at five o'clock . `` Yours respectfly `` Anna . '' The rustling of the paper had aroused Esther at last . First she opened one eye , then the other , and would have shut both again , only they happened to fall on the white parcel beside her .