five o'clock
The novels had taken away a little , and the `` Block '' a little more , but , Meg was naturally freshminded , and it took time to make much difference . Just now , under her friend 's tutelage , she was being inducted into the delightful mysteries of sweethearting , and for the time , it quite filled her some what purposeless young life . But it all ended with an adventure that years afterwards used to make her cheeks tingle painfully at the thought . After the bi-weekly French lesson , as I have said , the two friends used to come back together in the river-boat at five o'clock . And by this boat there always came two boys by the name of Courtney , and a third boy , Aldith 's particular property , James Graham . Now the young people had become known to each other at picnics and the like in the neighbourhood , but the acquaintance , instead of ripening on frequent meeting into a frank , pleasant friendship , had taken the turn of secrecy and silly playing at love . James Graham was in a lawyer 's office , a young articled cleric of seventeen in undue haste to be that delightful thing , a man .