eight o'clock
His comings and his goings were all known to Huldah . She knew that he took Jennie Perkins to the Sunday-School picnic , and escorted her home from evening meetings . She knew that old Mrs. Packard had given her a garnet pin , a glass handkerchief-box , and a wreath of hair flowers made from the intertwined tresses of the Packards and the Doolittles . If these symptoms could by any possibility be misinterpreted , there were various other details of an alarmingly corroborative character , culminating in the marriage of Pitt to Jennie on a certain Friday evening at eight o'clock . He not only married her on a Friday , but he drove her to Portland on a Saturday morning ; and the Fates , who are never above taking a little extra trouble when they are dealing out misery , decreed that it should be one of the freshest , brightest , most golden mornings of the early autumn . Pitt thought Portland preferable to Biddeford or Saco as a place to pass the brief honeymoon , if for no other reason than because the road thither lay past the Rumford house . But the Rumfords ' blinds were tightly closed on the eventful Saturday , and an unnecessarily large placard hung ostentatiously on the front gate , announcing to passers-by that the family had gone to Old Orchard Beach , and would be home at sundown .