six o'clock
` I 'm not in love , I 'm not , I 'm not ! ' ` And who save she could soothe the boy , Or turn his tears to tears of joy ? ' _ Samuel Rogers . _ Lance 's train was at six o'clock , and that by which the sisters were to return to Bexley so little later , that they would await it at the station , so the household was betimes more or less afoot . There was a frenzied scramble of maids and young ladies in hasty toilette ; yet breakfast was only forthcoming by personal exertion on the part of the Captain , who made the coffee , boiled the eggs , and sent his brother foraging into the kitchen . Then a message came that mother must see the sweet girl to bid her good-bye ; and Wilmet was dragged up to find the paddy good-natured face in bed , in an immense frilled nightcap , whence two horn-like curl-papers protruded . She was kissed , cried over , and told she was the dearest girl , and Jack the best boy , in the four kingdoms ; and while her head was turning round between dizziness at all that this cordiality implied , and a governess 's confusion whether these were the four kingdoms of Ireland , or England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , a demand followed for the darling boy ; but when she had gravely told the Captain that his mother wanted him , the result was to send him down laughing .