eleven o'clock
Only the Cresslers , Miss Gretry , Page , and Aunt Wess ' were present . Immediately afterward the couple were to take the train for Geneva Lake -- Jadwin having chartered a car for the occasion . But the weather on the wedding day was abominable . A warm drizzle , which had set in early in the morning , developed by eleven o'clock into a steady downpour , accompanied by sullen grumblings of very distant thunder . About an hour before the appointed time Laura insisted that her aunt and sister should leave her . She would allow only Mrs. Cressler to help her . The time passed .