four o'clock
`` If I were a boarder I 'd simply _ make _ them ! What they want is somebody to keep them up to it . Day-girls are really very much hampered . They have n't half a chance when they go home from school at four o'clock . I really sometimes think I 'd like to be a boarder , just for the fun of it . '' It is not very often we get what we want , but on this occasion Fortune waved a fairy wand and gave Merle the luck she coveted . It happened that the cook at Bridge House developed a sore throat , and Dr. Ramsay , having his suspicions , had the drains examined and found them to be in an exceedingly wrong condition .