five o'clock
`` Let us both get it , '' Mary cried gaily , `` we 'll be twice as quick . '' And before Miss Gallup could protest they had gone to the kitchen and she could hear them laughing . Mary was thoroughly enjoying herself . For three weeks she had poured out tea for her father solemnly at five o'clock and been snubbed for her pains . Here were two people who liked her , who were glad to see her , who thought it kind of her to come . No girl can be wholly unconscious of admiration ; nor , when it is absolutely reverential , can she resent it , and Mary felt no displeasure in Eloquent 's . They could neither of them cut bread and butter .