nearly one o'clock
Anna began moving about restlessly . Her tin trunk was packed , and all ready to be moved to Miss Forsyth 's . And Mrs. Otway , busy as she had been and absorbed in her own affairs while in town , had yet remembered to stipulate that one of the large cupboards in Anna 's bedroom should remain locked , and full of Anna 's things . It was now nearly one o'clock . What could have happened to her business visitor ? And then , just as she was thinking this for the hundredth time , she heard the unmistakable sound of a motor coming slowly down the road outside . Quickly she went out to the back door .