three o'clock on Wednesday
`` Mercy me , do n't say it out loud , '' -- Miss Carter laughed . `` Some one might hear you and take your advice . Now , go out for a walk and come back for tea with pink cheeks , you look tired out . And no matter how much you worry and fume , Janet wo n't get here a minute sooner than three o'clock on Wednesday . '' `` And that 's a whole day and a half off , '' -- Phyllis sighed as she left the room to get ready for her walk . Miss Carter looked thoughtfully into the fire for many minutes after she had gone . Her advice to love Janet was sound , but in her own heart she knew that Phyllis 's doubts were not without foundation .