three o'clock
It was surprisingly good -- perhaps because its poor little stomach was filled with proper food . It slept most of the night but Rilla did not . She was afraid to go to sleep for fear something would happen to the baby . She prepared its three o'clock ration with a grim determination that she would not call Susan . Oh , was she dreaming ? Was it really she , Rilla Blythe , who had got into this absurd predicament ? She did not care if the Germans were near Paris -- she did not care if they were in Paris -- if only the baby would n't cry or choke or smother or have convulsions .