seven o'clock
And just now they were happy moments . How could it be otherwise in a girl so healthy , and with such a depth of human feeling and with such a capacity for sheer enjoyment of the simple pleasures which came her way ? What an evening yet confronted her in this brief week of holiday from the claims of the green-brown plains of summer . She must be ready at seven o'clock for the reception at the City Hall . She had a new gown for that particular event , which had , amongst others , been bought in New York . It had cost one hundred and thirty dollars , an unthinkable price it had seemed , but dismissed as something too paltry to be considered by the open-handed ranchman whom she claimed as father . She was to assist Jeff and her father in receiving the guests , who would represent all the heads of their cattle world , and their friends , and their wives , and their daughters .