seven o'clock
She wore her fisher costume , for she thought Cluny would like it best , but it was fresh and bright and quite coquettish , with its pretty fluted cap , its gold earrings , its sky-blue bodice and skirt of blue and yellow stripes , and the little kerchief of vivid scarlet round her shoulders . Its final bit of vanity was a small white muslin apron , with little pockets finished off with bows of scarlet ribbon . If she had dressed herself for a fashionable masquerade ball she would have been its most picturesque belle and beauty . It was seven o'clock when Cluny arrived . Ruleson had gone to a meeting of the School Trustees , a business , in his opinion , of the very greatest importance ; and Margot 's womanly , motherly sense told her that Cluny would rather have her absence than her company . So she had pleaded weariness , and gone to her room soon after tea was over , and Cluny had `` the fair opportunity , '' he so often declared he never obtained ; for Margot had said to Jamie , `` You 'll come and sit wi ' me , laddie , and gie me the full story o ' your bloody defeat , and we 'll mak ' a consultation anent the best way o ' mending it . '' `` This is glorious ! ''