seven o'clock
`` And to think that the Applegates own a motor boat ! '' It was Lucile who spoke . The girls were walking down the quaint , narrow street at the side of the hotel . Although it was very early , scarcely seven o'clock , the girls had been up and dressed for nearly an hour . There was so much to be seen and thought about and talked about that an ordinary day , begun at , say , eight o'clock , seemed to these young people wholly inadequate . So it was they happened to be taking a walk while other guests of the hotel were just beginning to wake up , talking over the events of the day before and beginning to feel a most inordinate longing for breakfast . `` I 'm awfully glad , '' Jessie was saying , in answer to Lucile 's remark .