one o'clock
But while the charm of Nature made James anxious to linger , to lean on a gate and look for a while at the cows lazily grazing , Mary had too sound a constitution to find in it anything but a stimulus to renewed activity . `` We must n't dawdle , you lazy creature ! '' she cried merrily . `` I shall never get through my round before one o'clock if we do n't put our best foot foremost . '' `` Ca n't you see them some other time ? '' The limpid air softened his heart ; he thought for a moment that if he could wander aimlessly with Mary , gossiping without purpose , they might end by understanding one another . The sun , the wild flowers , the inconstant breeze , might help to create a new feeling .