four in the afternoon
Feemy was , nevertheless , very glad when she was told to get her cloak on , and found herself on the car going to Drumsna . She then told her friend that she wanted to be home with her father on the morrow , -- that she had promised to be home the day after the ball . She even pretended that she had received a message that evening from her father , begging her return . Mrs. McKeon did not think much about it , supposing that Feemy 's presence might be necessary for household purposes at Ballycloran , and she readily promised her the loan of the car , at four in the afternoon , on condition that she would return to Drumsna at least in a day or two . This Feemy promised , rejoicing that her expected difficulties as to getting to Ballycloran were so easily overcome , and going to bed , she slept more soundly than she had yet done since she had given her fatal consent to Ussher 's proposal . Late the next morning , Feemy and the other girls got up ; they had slept together to make room in the house for the victorious Bob , but as Father John had prophesied , they were all too tired to be much inconvenienced by this . Immediately after breakfast the car came round , and Feemy , afraid to wish her friends good bye too affectionately lest suspicion should be raised , and promising to come back again in a day or two , returned to Ballycloran .