midday
They started Monday morning with all hands on deck , so to speak ; they sailed round Tuesday and Wednesday without a black mark in the school-log . The Thursday on which they had so often split was passed under full canvas , and if they could only get through Friday the trophy was theirs . And Friday was the easiest day of all , inasmuch as , in view of the incoming Sabbath , it finished earlier . School did not break up between the two attendances ; there was a mere dinner-interval in the playground at midday . Nobody could get away , and whoever scored the first mark was sure of the second . Bloomah was up before dawn on the fateful winter morning ; she could run no risks of being late . She polished off all her house-work , wondering anxiously if any of her classmates would oversleep herself , yet at heart confident that all were as eager as she .