about eleven o'clock
Miss Villars is awfully nice , and she makes us enjoy ourselves . At home one feels quite wicked if one reads a storybook , because there are so many of the boys ' stockings to be mended , and cooking , and our own lessons in between , for we go to a day school for three hours every morning . Now here , Miss Villars takes us out in the garden after breakfast under her shady trees , and puts one of us in a hammock , and the other in an easy chair , and leaves us there with some delicious books for a couple of hours . And then we see a dainty lunch coming out to us about eleven o'clock , and we drive and play tennis , and she treats us just like she might her own sisters ! ' Elfie , looking at the radiant faces and sparkling eyes of the two delicate girls , envied Miss Villars the privilege of being able to bring such brightness and happiness into others ' lives . Meanwhile Clare was having a private talk with her friend , for after tea Agatha had sped down to the village on one of her benevolent errands . ` Have you found the true secret of happiness yet ? '