nearly six o'clock
`` By the way , Betty , would you run down after gym to get our old order sheet and put up a new one ? I have a special topic in psychology to-morrow , and if Professor Hinsdale really thinks I 'm clever I do n't want to undeceive him too suddenly . '' Betty promised , but after gym Rachel asked her to stay and play basket-ball with `` The Stars '' in the place of an absent member . Naturally she forgot everything else and it was nearly six o'clock when , sauntering home from an impromptu tea-drinking at the Belden House , she remembered the order sheet . It was very dusky in the basement . Betty , plunging down the steps that led directly into the small room where the bulletin board was , almost knocked down a girl who was curled up on the bottom step of the flight . `` Goodness !