two o'clock
They all had a word for Neil Durant and Teeny-bits -- a special word it seemed -- for there was no question that recent events had ripened the friendships and enhanced the popularity of these two members of `` the best school in the world . '' What happiness this was , Teeny-bits said to himself , to be going on a vacation with a fellow like Neil Durant and to have evidence at every moment of the friendship of such a `` good crowd '' as these fellows who were piling off the train and yelling out their good-bys . It all made him feel how much the last three months had brought into his life , how much he owed to the generosity of old Fennimore Ridgley who , though long ago laid to rest in his grave , had made it possible by his gift for Teeny-bits to come to Ridgley School . At two o'clock the train pulled into the station of Dellsport where Teeny-bits and Neil said good-by to the half dozen of their schoolmates who were going farther west . They found waiting for them in a closed car Mrs. Durant and Sylvia Durant , Neil 's sister , who immediately made Teeny-bits feel at ease by talking about school affairs . It had been a tremendous disappointment , it seemed , to both Mrs. Durant and Sylvia that they had been unable to come to the football game which had resulted so gloriously for Ridgley . `` If it had n't been for the influenza , '' said Sylvia , `` you would have heard some terrible shrieking on the day of that game -- I know I 'd have yelled loud enough so that every one would have heard me , because there was nothing in the world that I wanted quite so much as to have Ridgley come through .