ten o'clock
`` Here 's to our mothers , girls . Let 's dedicate our best efforts to them , and resolve never to lessen their pride in us with failures . '' -LSB- Illustration : Over the Tea and Cakes the Clouds Dispersed . -RSB- When Elfreda , Miriam , Anne and Grace ran up the steps of Wayne Hall at a little before ten o'clock they were laughing and talking so happily they failed to notice Virginia Gaines , who had been walking directly ahead of them . She had come from Stuart Hall , where , impatient to learn just what had happened the night before , she had gone to see Mary and Alberta . Finding them out she managed to learn the news from the very girl who had declared herself sorry for her part in the escapade . This particular sophomore , now that the reaction had set in , was loud in her denunciation of the trick and congratulated Virginia on not being one of those intimately concerned in it .