three o’clock
You may bring the azaleas upstairs . Take the white one to Mr. Alexander 's study . Put the two pink ones in this room , and the red one in the drawing-room . '' A little before three o'clock Mrs. Alexander went into the library to see that everything was ready . She pulled the window shades high , for the weather was dark and stormy , and there was little light , even in the streets . A foot of snow had fallen during the morning , and the wide space over the river was thick with flying flakes that fell and wreathed the masses of floating ice . Winifred was standing by the window when she heard the front door open .