eleven o'clock
until two
Cephas would treat me to candy in a minute , but if I let him we 'd have to ask him to the picnic ! Good-bye ! '' And the volatile creature darted down the hill singing , `` There 'll be something in heaven for children to do , '' at the top of her healthy young lungs . THE waving signal , a little later on , showed that Rodman could go to the picnic , the fact being that he was having a holiday from eleven o'clock until two , and Ivory was going to drive to the bridge at noon , anyway , so his permission could then be asked . Patty 's mind might have been thought entirely on her ugly task as she swept and dusted and scrubbed that morning , but the reverse was true . Mark Wilson had gone away without saying good-bye to her . This was not surprising , perhaps , as she was about as much sequestered in her hilltop prison as a Turkish beauty in a harem ; neither was it astonishing that Mark did not write to her .