nine o'clock
They had given Susan this part , after all , because they wanted Martha for `` Taking the Oath , '' afterward . Leslie Goldthwaite was giving a hasty touch to the tent drapery and the gray blanket ; Leonard Brookhouse and Dakie Thayne manned the halyards for raising the curtain ; there was the usual scuttling about the stage for hasty clearance ; and Sin Saxon 's hand was on the bell , when Grahame Lowe sprang hastily in through the dressing-room upon the scene . `` Hold on a minute , '' he said to Brookhouse . `` Miss Saxon , General Ingleside and party are over at Green 's , -- been there since nine o'clock . Ought n't we to send compliments or something , before we finish up ? '' Then there was a pressing forward and an excitement . The wounded soldier sprang from his couch ; the nun came nearer , with a quick light in her eye ; Leslie Goldthwaite , in her mob cap , quilted petticoat , big-flowered calico train , and high-heeled shoes ; two or three supernumeraries , in Rebel gray , with bayonets , coming on in `` Barbara Frietchie ; '' and Sir Charles , bouncing out from somewhere behind , to the great hazard of the frame of lights , -- huddled together upon the stage and consulted .