ten in the morning
All offers of assistance were refused the day of the party . Otoyo wished to carry out her ideas in her own peculiar way and needed only a step-ladder . If it was not asking too much , would the beautiful and kind friends not enter their room until that evening ? Removing all things needful in the way of books and clothes to Judy 's room , the beautiful and kind friends good-naturedly absented themselves from their apartment from ten in the morning to seven-thirty that evening . Molly spent the afternoon in the library studying , and Nance called on Mrs. McLean and drank a cup of tea and ate a buttered scone , while she cast an occasional covert glance in the direction of Andy junior 's photograph on the mantel . It was well before eight o'clock when the inquisitive guests assembled , and there were at least twenty of them ; for Otoyo 's acquaintance was large and numbered girls from all four classes . They met downstairs in a body and then marched up to the third story together .