two o'clock
They are n't nearly as happy as they look ! '' `` They 're a lot happier than they 're going to be about three hours from now , '' said Tim darkly . That struck the right note , and Tom and Don laughed , and Tim laughed with them , and they all three put their shoulders back and perked up a lot ! And then it was two o'clock and they were pulling on their togs in the locker-room ; and Danny Moore was circulating about in very high spirits , cracking jokes and making them laugh , and Coach Robey was dispatching Jim Morton and Jim 's assistant on mysterious errands and referring every little while to his red-covered memorandum book and looking very untroubled and serene . And then there was a clamping of feet on the stairs above and past the windows some two dozen pairs of blue-stockinged legs moved briskly as the visitors went across to the field for practice . And suddenly the noise was stilled and Coach Robey was telling them that it was up to them now , and that they had n't a thing in the world to do for the next two hours but knock the tar out of those blue-clad fellows , and that they had a fine day for it ! And then , laughing hard and cheering a little , they piled out and across the warm , sunlit grass , past the line of fellow-students and home-folks and towners , with here and there a pretty girl to glance shyly and admiringly at them as they trotted by , and so to the bench .