one o'clock
`` Did you think they would fail to accept ? '' teased Miss Sallie . `` Look at the foolish young things ! They have all fallen in love with the countess at first sight , and can hardly wait for one o'clock to arrive . But I will send our acceptance at once , so as not to keep the man waiting . '' Miss Stuart hurried off to the writing room of the hotel . So the girls were alone when they were joined on the piazza by Mrs. De Lancey Smythe and Marian .