about ten o'clock in the morning
Fidelia kept saying over to herself , `` Three pounds of your best raisins , and Mr. Lennox will come in and pay you . '' Her mother and Aunt Maria wished after she had gone that they had written it out on a piece of paper ; they had not thought of that . But Aunt Maria said she knew that such a bright child as Fidelia would remember three pounds of raisins when she had been told over and over , and charged not to come home without them . Fidelia had started about ten o'clock in the morning , and her mother and Aunt Maria had agreed that they would not worry if she should not return until one o'clock in the afternoon . That would allow more than an hour for the mile walk each way , and give plenty of time for a rest between ; for Fidelia had been instructed to go into the store and sit down on a stool and rest a while before starting upon her return trip . `` Likely as not Mis ' Rose will give her a cooky or something , '' Aunt Maria had whispered to Mrs. Lennox . So when noon came the two women pictured Fidelia sitting perched upon a stool in the store , being fed with candy and cookies , and made much of , or even eating dinner with the Rose family .