eleven o'clock
Fleda shut her eyes at length , and used the small remnant of her patience to keep herself quiet till she was called to breakfast . After breakfast she accepted the offer of her hostess to go up stairs and lie down till the cars were ready ; and there got some real and much needed refreshment of sleep and rest . It lasted longer than she had counted upon . For the cars were not ready at eleven o'clock -- the snow last night had occasioned some perplexing delays . It was not till near three o'clock , that the often-despatched messenger to the depôt brought back word that they might go as soon as they pleased . It pleased Mrs. Renney to be in a great hurry , for her baggage was in the cars , she said , and it would be dreadful if she and it went different ways ; so Fleda and her companion hastened down to the station-house and chose their places some time before anybody else thought of coming . They had a long , very tiresome waiting to go through , and room for some uneasy speculations about being belated and a night-journey .