eleven o'clock
`` That will be capital , '' the girl said . `` I have been greatly ashamed of my old dress , but knowing we were running so short , and that every dollar was of consequence , I made the best of it ; now that we are in funds we can afford to be respectable . '' Lucy started early the next morning for the town , and the shopping was satisfactorily accomplished . They returned by eleven o'clock . The new purchases were at once donned , and half an hour later they set off in the cart , Vincent sitting on the side driving , Lucy in the corner facing him on a basket turned topsy-turvy , Dan and Chloe on a thick bag of rushes in the bottom of the cart . Dan on his return with the cart had brought back a message from its late owner to say that if she could in any way be of use to them she should be glad to aid them . Her farm lay on the road they were now following , and they determined therefore to stop there .