nine o'clock
Miss Sallie for a time gave promise of wholly defeating Barbara 's plan to go into the city to see Mr. Stuart . However , after Bab had taken Miss Sallie into her confidence , the latter gave a reluctant consent . Ruth knew her way about so well that there would be no possibility of getting lost , and then they were going to her home , which made the journey seem less undesirable than it might have under other circumstances . The result was that Ruth and Barbara took the nine o'clock train for Chicago that morning amid loud protests from Olive , Mollie and Grace . Ruth regretted that the man had not come out with Mr. A. Bubble that morning . She hoped , however , that they might find the car at home . Perhaps her father intended to drive out in the car that night .