ten o’clock
-- We should all have been starved , if it had not been for you . And it is owing to you that we are so happy now -- quite different creatures from what we were . '' `` Quite a different creature indeed , you look , child , from what you did the first day I saw you . To-morrow my own maid goes , and you may come at ten o'clock ; and I hope we shall agree very well together -- you 'll find me an easy mistress , and I make no doubt I shall always find you the good , grateful girl you seem to be . '' Anne was impatient for the moment when she was to enter into the service of her benefactress ; and she lay awake half the night , considering how she should ever be able to show sufficient gratitude . As Mrs. Carver had often expressed her desire to have Anne look neat and smart , she dressed herself as well as she possibly could ; and when her poor father and mother took leave of her , they could not help observing , as Mrs. Carver had done the day before , that `` Anne looked quite a different creature from what she was a few weeks ago . '' She was , indeed , an extremely pretty girl ; but we need not stop to relate all the fond praises that were bestowed upon her beauty by her partial parents .