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The girls , she announced , might spend the afternoon as they chose , and she would pick them all up at five o'clock with Carter and the car . `` Esther and I want to see ` The Heart of June , ' '' announced Libbie , who found romance enough to satisfy her in the motion-pictures . Louise was interested , too ; but Betty had promised to take some papers for Mr. Littell and see that they reached an architect in one of the nearby office buildings . Bobby elected to go with her , and they decided that , that errand accomplished , they might do a little shopping and meet the others at the theater door at five o'clock . `` Mr. Waters wo n't be in till three o'clock , '' announced the freckle-faced office boy who met them in the outer office of the architect 's suite . `` Then we 'll have to come back , '' decided Betty , glancing at her watch . `` It is just two now . ''