about three o'clock
At the close of the school year she was to be graduated from the Kingsbridge High School . And she hoped to be able to enter Vassar College the following fall . Yet the fact that she was in Washington early in December requires an explanation . Two weeks before Bab had walked slowly home to Laurel Cottage at about three o'clock one November afternoon with a great pile of books under her arm . On the front porch of their little cottage she found her mother and Mollie , greatly excited . A telegram had just come from Ruth Stuart . The `` Automobile Girls '' were invited to visit Ruth 's cousin in Washington , D.C. Ruth wished them to start at the end of the week .