Ten minutes before two
After a while she dropped down on a little grassy knoll just off the curving sidewalk , and leaned her head against a tree , large tears , since there was no one to see them , rolling unheeded down her cheeks toward an inverted crescent of bitterly disappointed mouth . The sun at her back must have acted as a sedative , because , after a while of crying there tiredly , she started up out of a light doze , all her perceptions startled , and began immediately to run back toward the station . Within view of it she met a pedestrian , inquiring of him the time . Ten minutes before two ! This set her to running again , so that she fairly flopped with a little collapse on a station bench . A train was just pulling out . There was another at two-twenty .