two o'clock before
But she could not loiter long . There was the dinner-table to set for the hungry farm-hands , and after the dinner was over more dishes to wash . Then there were some towels to iron . It was two o'clock before her work was all done , and she had time to go up to her little room in the west gable . The sun poured in through the shutterless windows so fiercely that she did not stay long , -- only long enough to put on a clean apron and brush her curly hair , as she stood in front of the little looking-glass . It was such a tiny mirror that she could see only a part of her face at a time . When her big brown eyes , wistful and questioning as a fawn 's , were reflected in it , there was no room for the sensitive little mouth .