seven o'clock
`` To go all amongst strangers ! '' sobbed Bessie ; and her philosophy quite failed her when that prospect recurred in its dreadful blankness . Happily , the time of night did not allow of long lamentation . Presently Harry called at the stair 's foot that it was seven o'clock . And she kissed his mother and bade Brook good-bye . The walk home was through the Forest , between twilight and moonlight . The young men talked and Bessie was silent .