ten o'clock
`` If you do n't take down your old text I wo n't get into bed at all . I 've only been trying to make you all rich . '' And Dot , who was always alarmed into placidity when she had provoked wrath , returned `` Blessed are the pure in heart '' to its own position on the wall . All was ready very early in the morning , for Dot was to start upon her journey at ten o'clock . The little school trunk and the family portmanteau stood side by side in the hall , labelled and ready to go forth -- neat clean labels , bearing the inscription in Dot 's best hand-writing -- `` MISS BRUCE , Passenger to Katoomba , Blue Mountains . '' A strange excitement was upon Dot . She had never before in her life been upon a railway journey .