9 A.M.
They 're incipient poetry , and should be woven into the web of our lives as a beautiful border , before all the dark prose part follows . If the shuttle only weaves matter-of - fact threads it spoils the pattern ! '' The Tadpole Club It was quite interesting to be a boarder at ` The Moorings , ' though it had its more sober side , particularly for Merle . Her trouble lay in the fact that though she was a school officer from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. , out of those hours her authority was non-existent . Iva and Nesta were hostel monitresses , and they had quite plainly and firmly given her to understand that they did not expect any interference . They were perfectly within their rights , and Merle knew it , but she chafed nevertheless . The fact was that Iva and Nesta , accustomed to the old traditions of ` The Moorings , ' when there were only about a dozen boarders , were quite unable to cope with the new order of things , and girls who had been to other schools took decided advantage of their slackness .