two o'clock
`` Of course , '' Miss Carrie had said , `` you will not fail to be on time . '' And Miss Carrie had used her deepest tones . Hattie and Sadie and Emmy Lou had wondered how she could even dream of such a thing . It was not two o'clock , and the three stood at the gate , the first to return . They were in the same piece . It was The Play . In a play one did more than suit the action to the word , one dressed to suit the part .