four o'clock Saturday afternoon before
Either she would be obliged to go to Constance and demand her own or allow her to wear the bit of jewelry and create the impression that she had sanctioned the wearing of it . When she returned to school that afternoon she had half determined to see Constance and put the situation fairly to her , but rather to her relief Constance did not appear at the afternoon session , nor was she in school the next day . When Friday came and she was still absent , Marjorie was divided between her pride and a desire to go to the little gray house and settle matters . On Saturday she was still halting between two opinions , and it was four o'clock Saturday afternoon before she put on her wraps with the air of one who has made up her mind and started for the Stevens ' . As she approached the house she looked toward the particular window where Charlie was so fond of stationing himself to peer out on the dingy little street , but there was no sign of the boy 's white , eager face . To her vivid imagination the very house itself wore a sad , cheerless aspect that filled her with a vague apprehension of some impending unpleasantness . She knocked briskly at the door , then waited a little .