four o'clock
She had more than once , of late , darkly considered the question . Now she knew that so long as Marian 's spleen directed itself against her , and her alone , she could never do it . She would fight for her friends , but never for herself . At half-past four o'clock on the Wednesday following the sophomore class elections , the sophomore basket-ball try-out took place in the gymnasium . Twenty girls of the sophomore class had elected to enter the lists , while the usual number of freshmen and upper class spectators lined the walls of the big room . Among the ten bloomer-clad girls who were finally picked for the deciding tussle , five wore the dark green uniforms that had identified them the previous year as the official freshman team . They were Judith , Jane , Adrienne , Christine Ellis and Marian Seaton .